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Summary: Learn the basics about the mandolin with expert music training tips in this free online instrument instruction video clip.

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Mike Oberst Mike Oberst is a professional musician based out of Cincinnati, Ohio. He is proficient in nearly ten different instruments, including the bagpipes, mandolin, ... read more

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What is a Mandolin?

Hi! I am Michael Oberst for Expertvillage.com and I am a mandolin instructor. Today in our first lesson we are going to be talking a little bit about the mandolin. The mandolin is a small string instrument with eight strings in four pairs, which are plucked with a pick. The most common tuning for mandolin would be E, A, D and G starting from the smaller string to the larger string. Similar to the tuning of a violin and in truth there aren’t too many differences between the mandolin and a violin except for the fact that mandolin has frets and the body style is different.

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