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Bandoln
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A bandoln is a musical instrument from Mexico. It is a guitar sized

instrument, resembling a flatback mandolin with 18 strings, arranged in 6
courses, three strings per course, and played with a pick.[1][2] It is
associated with the tpica orquestra (typical orchestra) in Mexico,
especially the 1884 Orquesta Tpica Mexicana (Mexican Typical
Orchestra), first organized by Carlo Curti.[3]
Pictures such as the 1901 Mexican Typical Orchestra at the Pan
American Exposition show another variation, an instrument with 12
strings (one less string per course).
Whatever the resemblance to a flatback mandolin, there are differences:
the mandolin is a smaller instrument, the soprano member of its family,
tuned in fifths with the strings having the same tuning and range as the
violin. The bandoln is closer to the bandurria, tuned in fourths with
strings that have a range closer to the guitar's (having not only strings
tuned to high notes approaching the mandolin's, but also low note strings,
well below the mandolins range.)
When compared to the bandola it is very similar. The bandola also has the
12 and 18 string settings, tuned in forths, especially the bandola andina
colombiana.
Prominent players of the instrument include members of the 1884
Mexican Typical Orchestra: Andrs Daz de la Vega. Pedro Zariana,
Mariano Pagani y Apolonio Domnguez, Vidal Ordaz, Vicente Sols and
Jos Borbolla.[4] One more modern player found on the internet is Gabriel
Saucedo Villalobos.

Three bandolns in an 1885

photograph of Carlo Curti's Mexican
Typical Orchestra taken on their tour
in Columbus, Ohio.

References
1. "DEFINICIN DE BANDOLN, qu significa bandoln". lexicoon.org. Retrieved September 16, 2015.
2. Alfabtico temtica Invicta. p. 863.
3. El Mundo ilustrado, Volume 8, Part 1. June 23, 1901. p. 269.
4. de Olavarra y Ferrari, Enrique (1895). Resea histrica del teatro en Mxico, Volumes 3-4. La Europea.
pp. 408409.

External links
Picture of player with bandoln. (https://www.flickr.com/photos/70734125@N02/8247459166
/in/photostream/)
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A bandoln
player with his
12-string
bandoln, from
a photo taken at
the Pan
American
exposition,
1901.

Two musicians playing a 14-string and

16-string bandola andina colombiana.

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