Dear Mandolin Cafe friends,
First of all I wish 2016 will be a good, healthy, peaceful and musical year for everyone!
And secondly and as a personal gift I like to share the following family tree with you:
The Italian Mandolin: Its evolution, nomenclature and types.
I have made this family tree of the ‘Italian Mandolin’ on the basis of the most important mandolins that I've encountered in museums and private collections worldwide over the past 40 years. I linked these instruments to the names and as they are found describing most of these mandolin types in the oldest written sources that have survived. The opposite photo shows the development the most important types with the most distinguished instruments within the Italian Mandolin family.
It provides also a workable family tree of the Italian mandolin .
Of course I am aware of a second, or even third title of one and the same type of mandolin. These names often appear as a second option (for example the Mandolino is also called Mandolino 'Veneziano'; the Mandolino Milanese was also named Mandolino' Turino'; the Mandolino Cremonese has been indicated Mandolino 'Bresciano etc.) but I see these indications as a namegiving at the time for derivative models and and find them thereby of secondary interests for the respective mandolin-type. They are therefore not included for the type shown in the family tree. Another (secondary) models, eg. The Mandolino 'Toscano' and Mandolino Lombardo 'a corde doppie metalliche' etc. are excluded because of their rather meaningless role in the music field and place in the family tree. That is likely something for later, when the from the types derived models will be handled.
It is my wish that you will enjoy this family tree showing the main lines of development of the Italian Mandolin.
Sincerely,
Alex Timmerman.
PS. I hope that the text stays readable and the photos are kept in reasonable quality via the Mandolin Cafe here. After downloading, it is possible to print the image for yourself and/or your students on A4 paper.
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