The mandolin playing throughout Rod Stewart's 1971 album 'Every Picture Tells A Story' - including on the songs 'Mandolin Wind' and 'Maggie May' - has been credited to Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne.
Jimmy Page
You may be thinking of Mandolin Wind, a mandolin being a string instrument like a small guitar.
fiddle and mandolin
The mandola is the viola-equivalent of the mandolin family, and wants to be tuned Cgda, an octave higher than the Mando-cello (the cello-equivalent of the mandolin family.) The mandolin is tuned gdae', and frankly, while you certainly could try to tune the mandola that high, it would be a disaster to the strings and instrument because of the tension. It is possible that you could tune the mandola to GDae (i.e., an octave lower than the mandolin) except that the strings would have to be very heavy and would end up very loose, which is also not a good compromise. On the other hand, if you scale the strings and the sounding length of the strings is not much greater than the length of a mandolin, you can tune a mandola a whole tone lower than the mandolin with some success. Just my personal feelings here, though: If you want a mandolin, get a mandolin. A good mandola will sell for much more than the price of a similar-quality mandolin (both because it is larger and more rare) if you need to, and nothing really sounds like a mandolin quite like a mandolin does.
Mandolin Wind was created in 1971.
The mandolin playing throughout Rod Stewart's 1971 album 'Every Picture Tells A Story' - including on the songs 'Mandolin Wind' and 'Maggie May' - has been credited to Ray Jackson of Lindisfarne.
Jimmy Page
The mandolin in the novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernières is named Antonio. It is an important symbol throughout the story, representing love, music, and hope in the midst of war-torn Greece.
You may be thinking of Mandolin Wind, a mandolin being a string instrument like a small guitar.
Mandolin.....maybe
fiddle and mandolin
A banjo-mandolin is a four-stringed instrument with a body of a mandolin and the neck of a banjo.
mandolin
Stiver Mandolin
The mandola is the viola-equivalent of the mandolin family, and wants to be tuned Cgda, an octave higher than the Mando-cello (the cello-equivalent of the mandolin family.) The mandolin is tuned gdae', and frankly, while you certainly could try to tune the mandola that high, it would be a disaster to the strings and instrument because of the tension. It is possible that you could tune the mandola to GDae (i.e., an octave lower than the mandolin) except that the strings would have to be very heavy and would end up very loose, which is also not a good compromise. On the other hand, if you scale the strings and the sounding length of the strings is not much greater than the length of a mandolin, you can tune a mandola a whole tone lower than the mandolin with some success. Just my personal feelings here, though: If you want a mandolin, get a mandolin. A good mandola will sell for much more than the price of a similar-quality mandolin (both because it is larger and more rare) if you need to, and nothing really sounds like a mandolin quite like a mandolin does.
The Wind Blows - short story - was created in 1920.