Saturday, January 10, 2009

Mandolins

I'm guessing that you don't know what a mandolin is. It's a type of musical instrument. That's the instrument that I play. It has 8 strings, though the're all bunched together like this:
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, so when you play, you play two strings at a time. It sounds exactly like a violin, but it is played like a guitar and you can do chords. The mandolin music is written in Treble Clef, or G Clef, and you'll probably only know what this means if you're familiar with sheet music. Got a question about mandolins? Ask me by posting a comment. Here's a video of this really good guy playing the mandolin:

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