He could read music and liked to play a banjo and a mandola, which is like a mandolin, only bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

Capone could read music and liked to play a banjo and a mandola, which is like a mandolin, only bigger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

The mandola is my chill out instrument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Brown Eyed Women permalink #39 of 50: mandola smokabola.    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: Brown Eyed Women] Reference

After the war I'll get a mandola so that I can play viola music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The album begins with "If Jethro Were Here," a lively instrumental with Goodman playing mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-11-01] Reference

Maybe I can find someone in the battalion with a mandolin, and I can play the chords an octave lower on a mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]

The instruments were two mandolines, one banjo, one mandola, a tin whistle, an accordion, a rattle, a comb, and a lump of iron.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference

I would bring a pre-Gibson Flatiron pancake mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Kimble A model mandola that Dexter just had in stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Do you know, is Federica holding a bowlback mandola?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I have an H 5 style mandola it's a 40cm scale 0. 4M.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

(SEM octave / baritone and a 2 point flatback mandola).    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

As requested, a few pics of the Dayton mandola, style B.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I've got a really nice Harptone custom hardshell mandola case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I think the voice of a mandola works very well for those styles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Not only did Al Capone play mandola, but Bugsy played mandolin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I play an Eastman 615 mandola, and just acquired an 805 mandocello.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I use a capo frequently on mandola, octave mandolin, and mandocello.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Could be, but from my perspective the standard tuning is CGDA, like a mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Mando accumulator here is an instrument listed as a mandola that clearly isn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I play a mandola and consequently I am most comfortable in the keys of G and C.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

If you're trying to fill a hole left by a guitar, the mandola is what you want.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Italian mandola -- was produced which was handsomely carved and inlaid in silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference

Eh? Could be, but from my perspective the standard tuning is CGDA, like a mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

The similarity between my scrolls and the old Gibson mandola scrolls is the taper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Thank goodness he had the presence of mind to use the banjo instead of the mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I have an acoustic-electric mandola I use mainly for blues and beginner-level jazz.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I really like everything about this version -- including the singer and her mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Wouldn't mind have an oval hole Bighorn to match, maybe an octave / mandola as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I have seen pics of this mandola and it is an "exact minuature" of my Abnett Bouzouki.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I would put my skill level at late beginner or early intermediate on mandolin / mandola.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I don't know if it would work on a mandola or an octave, it depends on the string spacing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

I've owned a mandola for about a year now (an Old Wave oval) and think they are very cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

Not one with simply chords but one that also follows the mandola and mandoloncello part closely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

To balance things out, as it were, here is an instrument listed as a mandola that clearly isn't.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

This mandolin appears to be in better shape than the L&H / Washburn mandola that is also on ebay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

But one good thing about mandola is that the Capo Taliban don't seem to threaten beheading when you capo it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference

And the mandola's not quite "nature's capo"; no easier to play in Ab on the mandola than it is on the mandolin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference