Mandola

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Mandola

Other names	Tenor mandolin, Alto mandola, Alto mandolin, Mandoliola, Liola
Classification	String instrument (plucked)
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	321.322 (Composite chordophone)
Playing range
C3-D6 or E6
Related instruments
List Family: Mandolin Mandola Octave mandolin Mandocello Mandobass Related: Baglamas Bouzouki Irish bouzouki

The mandola (US and Canada) or tenor mandola (Ireland and UK) is a fretted, stringed musical instrument. It is to the mandolin what the viola is to the violin: the four double courses of strings tuned in fifths to the same pitches as the viola (C₃-G₃-D₄-A₄), a fifth lower than a mandolin.^[1] The mandola, though now rarer, is an ancestor of the mandolin. (The word mandolin means little mandola.)