Can anyone give a picture that identifies the parts of a mandolin...?

Question

It's hard to find a pic. of a mandolin with its parts labeled on it... :)

Answer 1

take a look at this link it will help

http://www.fantes.com/slicers_mandolins.htm

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Answer 2

A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It is characterized by:

Eight metal strings in four pairs (courses), normally tuned to the tones g, d', a', and e" (like the violin), that are plucked with a plectrum,
A body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape,
A neck with a flat (or slightly radiused) fretted fingerboard, and a flat nut and bridge,
Mechanical tuning machines, rather than friction pegs,
A soundtable with a soundhole, or f-shaped soundholes, that are open and not latticed. [1] [2]
The most common tuning for the mandolin is in fifths, the same as for the violin (G-D-A-E, lowest to highest). Guitarists may occasionally tune a mandolin to mimic a portion of the intervals on a standard guitar tuning to achieve familiar fretting patterns.

Like the guitar, the mandolin has relatively poor sustain; that is, the sound from a plucked string decays quickly. A note cannot be maintained for an arbitrary length of time as with a bowed note on a violin. Its small size and higher pitch makes this problem more severe than with the guitar, and the use of tremolo (rapid picking of one or more pairs of strings) is often used to create a sustained note or chords. This technique works particularly well with a mandolin's paired strings, where one of the pair is sounding while the other is being struck by the pick, giving a more rounded sound than a single coursed instrument can.


Mandolin forms
Mandolins come in several forms. The Neapolitan style, known as a round-back or bowl-back, (or tater-bug, colloquial American), has a vaulted back made of a number of strips of wood in a bowl formation, similar to a lute, and usually a canted, two-plane, uncarved top. The Portuguese bandolim, a flat-back style, is derived from the cittern, but is tuned the same as most mandolins. Another form has a banjo-style body.

Example of an f-hole A-style mandolin Example of an oval-hole A-style mandolinOther American-made variants include the Howe-Orme guitar-shaped mandolin (manufactured by the Elias Howe Company between 1897 and roughly 1920), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece, and the Vega mando-lute (more commonly called a cylinder-back mandolin manufactured by the Vega Company between 1913 and roughly 1927), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument
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Check answer.com or wikipedia.com.

There are a few different styles of mandolin. Which one are you looking for.