mandolin

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My solution this week was to purchase a mandolin and start learning to play an instrument.

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Quick take

A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mandolin gathered in one view.

noun

A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.

verb

To slice using a madolin; to julienne.

noun

(music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mandolin.

noun

A kitchen tool for julienning vegetables.

verb

To slice using a madolin; to julienne.

noun

(music) A stringed instrument of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.

Example sentences

My solution this week was to purchase a mandolin and start learning to play an instrument.

Interestingly, this is opposite to some guitar/banjo/mandolin players, who keep their nails long to help with picking, as mentioned above.

Would love to see tab support for 4 and 5 stringed instruments as well (5 st banjo, tenor banjo, mandolin etc)!

Let me explain a literal example: I once cut my knuckle very badly with a cheap mandolin slicer.

This might be niche, but if you happen to have access to creative-commons liscenced fiddle and mandolin music, that helps me focus.

As a side-note, I strongly suggest against using a cheap mandolin OR having a wound cauterised with silver nitrate.

AI brings additional leisure time, which results in a worldwide resurgence in bluegrass music as millions take up the guitar, mandolin and violin.

I have no problem finding fiddle, banjo, or mandolin players!

I've been playing both flatpicking guitar and mandolin respectively for 14 and 4 years, but have been in love with the sax for more than 20 years.

After all I'm sure finding lost luggage or locating mandolin strings in the middle of Austin is a job you want to be troubling your engineers with.

( Banjo and mandolin seem just a little less likely to be included.

For what it's worth, I speak three languages (English, Japanese, and German) and play three instruments (trumpet, mandolin, and guitar).

Quote examples

I could try to learn to play the mandolin after I've "finished," with the violin.

This is the height of pedantry (and I apologize), but guitar/banjo/mandolin players are not really "opposite" to violinists--they all need to keep the fingernails of their fingerboard hands short.