0 a musical instrument with four pairs of metal strings and a round back
1 a musical instrument with eight strings and a rounded back that is held in the hands or on the knee and played by moving the fingers across the strings
What often occurs is for a pedal steel, fiddle, dobro, mandolin or guitar to act as a secondary or counter-melody.
Their sound was multi-instrumental, with traditional - flute, bodhran, acoustic fiddle, mandolin, concertina - meeting with rock instrumentation - guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and vocals.
During these xylophone-led segments the dominant mood grows increasingly turbulent, as more brittle, unstable material in mandolin, guitar, and celesta is introduced, and a sense of menace intensifies.
On the whole these are played competently, though not spectacularly; the decision to use a variety of solo instruments including mandolin is a welcome piece of imaginative freedom.
The strong pluckings and tremolos of the mandolin-banjos (when the accordions are not playing their solo parts, for example) give the piece a flavour of their own.
It adds pedal steel, dobro, fiddle and mandolin to the guitar and bass emphasis of rock and then throws in the blue-eyed soul of countrified gospel piano.
Unfortunately, he taught me to tune it in fourths throughout + he was a mandolin player of sorts + and this rather frustrated my early attempts at learning chords.
He commonly played instruments such as the washboard and the mandolin.