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Three bandolóns in an 1885

 photograph of Carlo Curti’s MexicanTypical Orchestra taken on their tour 

in Columbus, Ohio.

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A bandolón is a musical instrument from Mexico. It is a guitar sizedinstrument, resembling a flatback mandolin with 18 strings, arranged in 6courses, three strings per course, and played with a pick.[1][2] It isassociated with the típica orquestra (typical orchestra) in Mexico,especially the 1884 Orquesta Típica Mexicana ( Mexican Typical 

Orchestra), first organized by Carlo Curti.[3]

Pictures such as the 1901 Mexican Typical Orchestra at the PanAmerican Exposition show another variation, an instrument with 12strings (one less string per course).

Whatever the resemblance to a flatback mandolin, there are differences:the mandolin is a smaller instrument, the soprano member of its family,tuned in fifths with the strings having the same tuning and range as the

violin. The bandolón is closer to the bandurria, tuned in fourths withstrings that have a range closer to the guitar’s (having not only stringstuned to high notes approaching the mandolin’s, but also low note strings,well below the mandolins range.)

When compared to the bandola it is very similar. The bandola also has the12 and 18 string settings, tuned in forths, especially the bandola andina

colombiana.

Prominent players of the instrument include members of the 1884exican Typical Orchestra: Andrés Díaz de la Vega. Pedro Zariñana,

Mariano Pagani y Apolonio Domínguez, Vidal Ordaz, Vicente Solís andJosé Borbolla.[4] One more modern player found on the internet is GabrielSaucedo Villalobos.

References

"DEFINICIÓN DE BANDOLÓN, qué significa bandolón". lexicoon.org . Retrieved September 16, 2015.1. Alfabético temática Invicta. p. 863.2. El Mundo ilustrado, Volume 8, Part 1. June 23, 1901. p. 269.3.de Olavarría y Ferrari, Enrique (1895).  Reseña histórica del teatro en México, Volumes 3-4. La Europea. pp. 408–409.

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External links

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A bandolón

 player with his

12-string

 bandolón, from

a photo taken at

the Pan

Americanexposition,

1901.

Two musicians playing a 14-string and

16-string bandola andina colombiana.

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