Mandolin
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Mandolin
MANDOLIN;
Grasso Toscano Santi
;Aikaterini Mertzanidou
608 cm x 200 cm x 144 cm (Number of strings: 8, string length: 326 mm, fingerboard width at the bridge: 27 mm, fingerboard width at the beginning of the body: 36 mm, sound hole diameter: ~41-72 mm, saddle length: 121 mm, centre of saddle height: 7 mm, number of ribs: 19+2, body dimensions: 312 x 201 x 135 mm, body circumference: 389 mm.)
Mandolin made by Grasso Toscano Santi, with a string length of 328 mm. It has 8 mechanical keys with plastic round heads and an equal number of metal strings divided into 4 groups (2+2+2+2). The 4 thinner strings are plain, while the rest are wound. Its body is made of maple (kelebeki) and consists of 19 ribs and 2 side ribs. The instrument has: a wooden bridge, a fingerboard with 17 frets and 5 inlaid disc-shaped finger placement guides made of shell, plain wooden bindings, a sound hole on its top, a plastic pickguard with inlaid decoration (a male figure playing a lute-like instrument and a moon), a wooden saddle with bone on top and a metal string holder with 8 heads. On the inside of the resonator, there is a paper label with a spider design in its centre that reads: “GRASSO TOSCANO SANTI / MARCA DI FABRICA / FABRICA STRUMENTI MUSICALI A CORDA / CATANIA SICILIA”. On the top of its body, there is an ellipsoidal pyrographic area with a design of a spider and the details: “GRASSO TOSCANO SANTI / CATANIA SICILIA”.