The mandolin: Instrument of the year, 2023

[journeybear]

Café member Linda Binder has been honored with the designation of Mandolin Player Of The Day for today, April 13, 2023.



If you follow that link, you will see previous recipients of this honor, including some members, such as Paul Glasse and Rich DelGrosso, as well as others you may recognize. So that's nice.

I wonder if they'll get around to me ...

[Bill Cameron]

An online translation, for what it may be worth, of the above:
“Although at first glance the mandolin, as the successor to the lute, comes more from the courtly sphere, it has always been a folk instrument, "a violin of the workers", which belongs to the mandolin orchestras.”

The last clause wants context, something invariably missing from automatic translations.

Well that’s a better review than the Oxford Companion to Music gives them…(see sig below). And this recognition coming from the classical ‘verse is a positive imho ;/=