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Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a romantic drama starring Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt and Christian Bale in a story about a Captain of the occupying Italian army winning the hearts of residents on a Greek island during the Second World War. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was directed by John Madden in 2001.
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The bandurria is a small twelve-string mandolin type of instrument with a very short wide neck, popular in Spain.
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The banjo is a stringed musical instrument. It is an American development of African origins related to the Kora etc., but with a guitar type neck. Found with 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 or more strings, popular types are the 5 string, Tenor (4 string), Plectrum (long neck 4 string), Banjolele (Ukulele Banjo), Banjolin (Mandolin Banjo).
The banjo evolved among the negro slaves of North America and was originally a six-stringed instrument with a body like a tambourine and a neck like a guitar. The banjo is played by stopping the strings with the fingers of the left hand and twitching or striking them with the fingers of the right. The upper or octave string, however, is never stopped.
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The mandola is a musical instrument closely resembling the mandolin, but of a larger size and tuned lower.
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The mandolin is a stringed musical instrument like a small lute. The most widely known variety is the Neapolitan, which has eight strings tuned in four pairs of unisons to the same fifths as the violin, and played by a plectrum.
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The Rebec is an obsolete form of stringed musical instrument of Middle Eastern origin which was popular during the Middle Ages. It was the precursor of the viol, was shaped somewhat like a mandolin, had three gut strings and was played with a bow. Henry VIII included the instrument in his state band, but later it was rarely used except by street musicians.
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