单词 | neapolitan mandolin |
释义 | > as lemmasNeapolitan mandolin Neapolitan mandolin n. (also mandolino) Music the original and more common type of mandolin (usually referred to without qualification as a mandolin), having four (or occasionally five) pairs of strings which fasten at the lower end of its body, and a neck which is attached to its body rather than being a continuation of it; cf. Milanese mandolin n. at Milanese n.1 and adj. Compounds. ΚΠ 1870 C. Engel Descr. Catal. Mus. Instruments in S. Kensington Museum 44 Mozart, in his ‘Don Giovanni’, has made use of the Neopolitan mandolino in the serenade.] 1944 W. Apel Harvard Dict. Music 422/2 The Neapolitan mandolin has five double-courses (ten strings) tuned in fifths. 1996 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 13 Jan. 1 d A Neapolitan mandolin rendition of the theme from ‘The Godfather’. < as lemmas |
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