mandolin

musical instrument in the lute family
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The mandolin has been honored with the Instrument of the Year award[1].

mandolin

Summary

mandolin is a type of musical instrument[1]. mandolin ranks in the top 2% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,743 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • mandolin received the Instrument of the Year[3].
  • mandolin is in the country of Sri Lanka[4].
  • mandolin's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[5].
  • mandolin is a type of necked bowl lute sounded by plectrum[6].
  • mandolin's Commons category is recorded as Mandolins[7].
  • mandolin's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mandolins[8].
  • mandolin's Commons gallery is recorded as Mandolin[9].
  • mandolin's depicted by is recorded as The Mandolin Player[10].
  • mandolin's depicted by is recorded as Lady Playing a Mandolin[11].
  • mandolin's depicted by is recorded as Pierrot playing the mandolin[12].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Riemann's Music Dictionary[14].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[16].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[17].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • mandolin's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 7[20].
  • mandolin's used by is recorded as mandolinist[21].
  • mandolin's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 321.321-6[22].
  • mandolin's different from is recorded as bandolin[23].
  • mandolin's different from is recorded as bandolina[24].
  • mandolin's different from is recorded as mandola[25].
  • mandolin's different from is recorded as Tachirean bandolin[26].
  • mandolin's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[27].

Body

Definition and Type

mandolin's instance of is recorded as type of musical instrument[5]. mandolin is a type of necked bowl lute sounded by plectrum[6].

Use and Application

mandolin's used by is recorded as mandolinist[21].

Recognition

mandolin received the Instrument of the Year[3].

Influence

Things named for mandolin include mandoline[28].

Why It Matters

mandolin ranks in the top 2% of type_of_musical_instrument entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,743 views/month).[2] mandolin has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] mandolin is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for mandolin include mandoline[28].

FAQs

What awards did mandolin receive?

Honors received include Instrument of the Year[3].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . deutschlandfunk.de. Retrieved . deutschlandfunk.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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