Mandola - Plucked musical instrument Mandolin's ancestor Mandola

曼陀拉（美国和加拿大）或男高音曼陀林（爱尔兰和英国）是一种有弦乐器。曼陀林之于中提琴之于小提琴：四根双弦琴弦调五度至与中提琴相同的音高（C3-G3-D4-A4），比曼陀林低五度。曼陀罗虽然现在比较罕见，但它是曼陀林的祖先。（曼陀林这个词的意思是小曼陀罗。）

The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C3-G3-D4-A4), a fifth lower than a mandolin. The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of the mandolin. (The word mandolin means little mandola.)

曼陀罗（mandola）这个名字可能起源于古代潘杜拉（pandura），也被译为曼陀罗（mandora），这种变化可能是由于与意大利语中“杏仁”一词的近似所致。这种乐器很早就从鲁特琴发展而来，更加紧凑，制造成本也更低，但不同地区的发展顺序和命名法现在很难发现。历史上相关的乐器包括 mandore、mandole、vandola（Joan Carles Amat，1596）、bandola、bandora、bandurina、pandurina 以及 16 世纪德国的 quinterne 或 chiterna。

The name mandola may originate with the ancient pandura, and is also rendered as mandora, the change perhaps having been due to approximation to the Italian word for "almond". The instrument developed from the lute at an early date, being more compact and cheaper to build, but the sequence of development and nomenclature in different regions is now hard to discover. Historically related instruments include the mandore, mandole, vandola (Joan Carles Amat, 1596), bandola, bandora, bandurina, pandurina and – in 16th-century Germany – the quinterne or chiterna.

然而，显着不同的乐器有时和地点具有相同或相似的名称，并且“真正的”曼陀罗以几种不同的方式串成。However, significantly different instruments have at times and places taken on the same or similar names, and the "true" mandola has been strung in several different ways.

曼陀罗有四根双排金属弦，调音一致。标尺长度通常约为 42 厘米（16.5 英寸）。曼陀罗通常用拨片（拨片）来演奏。双弦采用了一种称为震音的延音技术，即拨片在单根弦上的快速交替。The mandola has four double courses of metal strings, tuned in unison. The scale length is typically around 42 cm (16.5 inches). The mandola is typically played with a plectrum (pick). The double strings accommodate a sustaining technique called tremolando, a rapid alternation of the plectrum on a single course of strings.

曼陀罗常用于民间音乐，尤其是意大利民间音乐。它有时在爱尔兰传统音乐中演奏，但更常用的乐器是八度曼陀林、爱尔兰布祖基琴和现代西特琴。一些爱尔兰传统音乐家效仿安迪·欧文（Andy Irvine），用较轻的曼陀林弦重新拉次中音曼陀罗，并将其调为F-C-G-C（比G-D-A-D低两个半音，The mandola is commonly used in folk music—particularly Italian folk music. It is sometimes played in Irish traditional music, but the instruments octave mandolin, Irish bouzouki and modern cittern are more commonly used. Some Irish traditional musicians, following the example of Andy Irvine, restring the tenor mandola with lighter, mandolin strings and tune it F-C-G-C (two semi-tones lower than G-D-A-D,

因为曼陀罗的指板比曼陀林的指板长两个音品），而其他人（最著名的是 Dervish 的 Brian McDonagh）使用替代调弦，例如 D-A-E-A。与吉他一样，曼陀罗可以是原声的或电动的。股票经纪人阿提拉、朋克诗人和 Barnstormer 的主唱，使用电动曼陀罗作为他的主要乐器。Rush 的吉他手 Alex Lifeson 也在他的作品中使用了曼陀拉。since the mandola's fretboard is two frets longer than the mandolin's), while others (Brian McDonagh of Dervish being the best known) use alternate tunings such as D-A-E-A. Like the guitar, the mandola can be acoustic or electric. Attila the Stockbroker, punk poet and frontman of Barnstormer, uses an electric mandola as his main instrument. Alex Lifeson, guitarist of Rush, has also featured the mandola in his work.

曼陀林有时在曼陀林管弦乐队中与曼陀林家族的其他成员一起演奏：曼陀林、曼多塞洛和曼多低音。有时也包括八度曼陀林（也称为八度曼陀罗）。Mandolas are sometimes played in mandolin orchestras, along with other members of the mandolin family: mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.Sometimes the octave mandolin (also referred to as an octave mandola) is included as well.

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