Could it be a bandurria? How did you acquire it?
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Could be a Spanish Laúd. Do you know where it is made?
It appears to be a mandriola. There are variations in tuning depending on where it comes from. We have some experts on world instruments that should pipe in at some point. Just removing strings will make the fretboard a bit wider than you might like. Is this something someone gifted to you?
The tricordia appears to be the same instrument with a possibility of different tuning.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Haven’t the silghtest idea of what it is but someone posted this link a while back which you might find usefull - https://www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/index.htm - I think it’s worth repeating.
If anyone has trouble viewing the images this instrument has four courses of 3 strings in unison. That should limit your search a bit.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
So I told my sister that I was super interested in learning the mandolin, I’m into the style of Martie Maguire of Dixie Chicks & Court Yard Hounds on her mandolin. I knew an electric acoustic mandolin certainly wasn’t the right one to start with, but my sister bought it for my
for Xmas as a gift and she bought it off OfferUp. It was described as a mandolin with twelve strings. I don’t truly care so much as I can learn one method universally. I bought a beginners book that is coming from Amazon tomorrow and I just don’t want it to not be something that would accommodate this particular model.
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Thanks for your help. Should I take a closeup of any part of this? Would that be helpful?
So I got it from my sister as an Xmas gift and she acquired it from OfferUp from
a native of Long Beach, CA. It was described as a 12 string mandolin. While I thought perhaps a Mexican/Latin American variation (if those exist) could be it, I became so confused once I looked into the beginners books. There are none for twelve strings. Wondering if this will make it difficult.
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Unfortunately for you and your sister, that instrument was labeled incorrectly as "mandolin" - while it may be a cool instrument, it is nothing that anyone here would suggest that a person wanting to learn mandolin should start with. You'll be better off acquiring a mandolin to learn to play mandolin with. There are some pretty inexpensive entry level mandolins available these days.
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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