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Music from Venezuela for Mandolin and other Plucked Instruments – My Playlists

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In this post I have compiled several playlists with music for mandolin and other stringed instruments from Venezuela. I have a page on my website mandoisland about the mandolin and other interesting information about the music in Venzuela. MandoIsland Website: mandoisland.de Page about music in Venezuela: http://www.mandoisland.de/weblog_venezuela.html Music from Venezuela Venezuela – Percujazz (Cuatro/Bandola) Bandola …

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The Cretan Laouto – A Big and Great Sounding Instrument from Greece

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I have discovered the Cretan Laouto some time ago and have written the following post in my German blog. I thought that I should also make a version in English about this interesting instrument from Greece. The Cretan Laouto has 4 double strings, the three lower strings are tuned in octaves, the highest strings are …

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The English Guittar or Cittern – A popular Plucked String Instrument of the 18th Century

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I am currently reading about the history of the English Guitar or Guittar, a kind of Cittern. Some time ago I have written a post about this instrument in my German blog www.gezupftes.de. The guittar was developed after 1753 in Great Britain. According to the very detailed paper by Jürgen Kloss it has first been …

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