The mandolin
Subtitle: a history
By: by Graham McDonald
Publisher: Graham McDonald Stringed Instruments
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 411
ISBN-13: 9780980476279
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mandolin; Pictorial works; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Origins. Mesopotamia ; Egypt ; Europe; title: 'Uds & lutes. Barbat, Al-'Ud & the pipa; title: The Middle Ages & Renaissance. The citole ; The gittern ; Moriscas & Latinas; title: Citterns. Italy ; Northern Europe ; Bandoras & orpharions ; Germany & the English guittar; title: The Baroque. The gut strung mandolin ; The Cremonese & Milanese mandolins ; The callichon, mandora & colascione ; The chitarra battente; title: Neapolitans & other Italians. The Neapolitan mandolin ; Bass mandolins & mandolones ; The Roman mandolin ; The Genoese mandolin; title: The modern Italian mandolin. Vinaccia ; Calace ; Calace today ; Other southern Italians ; The new Roman mandolin ; Catania ; Flat mandolins; title: The American mandolin. Varnish, celluloid & lacquer ; Gibson ; Orville Gibson's radical idea; The Gibson Manufacturing Company ; Lloyd Loar & the F-5 Master Model Mandolin ; Identifying Gibsons ; Later Gibsons ; Made by Gibson; title: Chicago. Lyon & Healy ; Regal ; Harmony ; Kay ; The Larson Brothers ; William Stahl ; Joseph Bohmann ; Slingerland ; Blue Comet ; The guitar-mandolin ; Others ; Florentine & Venetian; title: New York. C.L. Partee's American lute ; Galiano, Ciani & D'Angelico ; Epiphone ; Nicola Turturro ; Oscar Schmidt ; Strad-O-Lin ; Other New Yorkers; title: Boston. Oliver Ditson, John Haynes & Bay State ; Fairbanks & Cole ; Howe-Orme ; Vega ; Bacon; title: Other places, people & mandolins. Weymann ; Holzapfel ; C.F. Martin ; The Waldo ; Shutt ; Tony Biehl ; Dayton ; Harwood ; Frank Coulter ; John H. Parker & the bandola ; Lyralin; title: Harps, banjos, resonators & electrics. Harp mandolins ; Knutsen, Dyer & the Larsons ; Banjo-mandolins ; Resonator mandolins ; Electric mandolins; title: The revival of the F-5. Roger Siminoff & the F-5L ; From Kalamazoo to Nashville ; Flatiron, Gibson & Weber ; Back in Nashville : the Derrington years ; The fascination of the F-5; title: Modernists; title: 20th century European mandolins. Great Britain & Ireland ; France ; Germany ; Sweden; title: Japan & East Asia; title: Spain, Portugal & beyond. Spain ; Spanish America ; Portugal & Brazil ; The Philippines; title: The Balkans to central Asia. Tanbur ; Turkey ; Greece ; Tamburitzas & tamburitza orchestras ; Domras & balalaikas; title: 20th century citterns. The survival of the cittern ; The cetera ; The Algerian mandole ; The true history of the bouzouki in Ireland ; Joe Foley ; Sobell's new cittern ; Bouzoukis, citterns and octave mandolins; title: Tuning machines.