Illustration: The Mandoline Player] A group of pinafored urchins who were hanging about outside told us that it was the fiesta of the master of the house.
Great excitement prevailed when, by dint of much cajoling, I managed to procure a mandoline from the town, for, though the meals were very much looked forward to and enjoyed, the rest of the time passed very slowly.
The Russians had a really first-class mandoline and balalaika band, with which they played many of their waltzes and curiously attractive folk-songs.
Mrs. Parlin was afraid Mandolinehad not been taught to respect the truth, and had often desired her little daughter not to play with the beautiful Jewess.
And such a pretty sight as bareheaded Mandoline presented!
Dotty did not know why she liked Mandoline so well, but like her she did.
In order to sustain notes on the mandoline the effect known as tremolo is employed; it is produced by means of a double movement of the pick up and down over a pair of strings.
The Neapolitan mandoline was scored for by Mozart as an accompaniment to the celebrated serenade in Don Juan.
The mandoline is classified amongst the stringed instruments having a vaulted back, which is more accentuated than even that of the lute.
The mandoline is a derivative of the mandola or mandore, which was smaller than the lute but larger than either of the mandolines described above.
The earliest method for the mandoline was published by Fouchette in Paris in 1770.
The mandoline is strung with steel and brass wire strings.
She was led by Leicester to the raised dais at the end of the withdrawing-room where the dancing took place, and then, at her command, Philip Sidney sang to the mandoline some laudatory verses which he had composed in her honour.
I trade in a mandoline fer him what had her neck kind o' busted off on one side.
In this they resemble the instruments of Oriental races, and the author traces the form of the rebec and mandoline as well as that of the mandore and lute to Persian, Arabic, and Moorish influence in the Middle Ages.
And at the present time it, together with the mandoline and the banjo, are the only representatives of the type in every-day use.
And as she watched she saw two men, one carrying a mandoline case and a suit-case which she knew.
In the hall he pricked up his ears as he took the mandoline from the chest.
Ciccio got up quickly and took his mandoline from its case.
A mandoline was wailing its vibration in the night outside, rapidly, delicately quivering.
Come--" Ciccio laid down his mandoline and went to kiss the fingers of Kishwégin.
Stradella laughed low, and the mandoline was silent for a while.
You should never have taken his bright eyes and his mandoline to that doleful and damp land of precisians.
You had your Ruy Blas and Petrarca and the mandoline and the moonlight and the love-philtres all mixed up in an intoxicating draught.
Ghisleri entered from the opposite side, arrayed somewhat in the manner of Mephistopheles, a mandoline slung over his shoulder, on which he was playing.
From under her feet in the crew's quarters came the tinkle of a mandoline playing "La Donna e Mobile.
Below deck the mandoline began to twang again, and the soft Italian voice went on with "La Donna E Mobile" interminably.
I've put our names down for a mandoline and guitar duet, and said we'd be ready to help with any accompaniments they like.
Garnet and Winona helped with mandoline and guitar, so the general result was quite orchestral.
Directly the mandoline part began, her confidence returned.
I play the mandoline myself, and the two go so well together.
As the last notes of the air on the mandoline died away, Winona swept her thumb over the strings of her guitar in a tremendous final chord.
She had suggested a duet for mandoline and guitar, but Winona had had no time to practice her instrument lately, and had begged to be excused.
I thought if you and I played the mandoline and guitar together, it would make a good item.
At eight o'clock, Dotty went to bed with Mandoline in the unfinished chamber, sorely against her will; and Mandoline told her such dreadful stories that she could not close her eyes for fright.
Mrs. Rosenberg graciously allowed Mandolineto lay aside her tedious knitting, and give her undivided attention to her guest.
Mandoline was dreadfully afraid of her mother, and, in her eagerness to be found hard at work, she rattled her needles very fast, while her fingers wandered aimlessly about among the stitches.
There lay Mandoline and Dotty side by side on the buffalo skins; and the Jewish mother stood in her short night-dress, with a tallow candle in her hand, and gazed at them tenderly.
She was not really a Jewess, for she had no religion of any sort, and never went to church; but I am sure of one thing: little overworked Mandoline would have loved her mother better if she had known she ever prayed for her at all.
Mandoline would not produce the missing hat, and it was no light matter for Dotty to go down stairs, among the noisy, quarrelsome children, and beg the severe Mrs. Rosenberg to take her part.
Dotty was greatly abashed by this reception, and would have rushed out of the house, but Mandoline held her fast.
Perhaps, too, she would sayMandoline might keep the hat.
But Mandoline had left the trundle bed, and was lying on the floor with her guest.
It was true Mrs. Parlin did not approve ofMandoline or any of her family; but Dotty thought she would forget that, just for once.
She was not expecting company; and when Mandoline entered with Dotty, she looked up from her work with a frown.
The tender, curiously vibrating tone of the metal strings of the mandoline seems inseparable from the sweet gracefulness of the song; the instrument was then in common use (Mozart has written several songs to the mandoline, Vol.
The effect of the charming melody, and of the well-chosen harmonies, is much enhanced by the pizzicato mandoline accompaniment supported by the stringed instruments.
In front of a handsome house stood a young girl apparently near sixteen years of age, in poor but clean garments, and holding a mandoline in her hand with which she was playing an accompaniment to the words she was singing.
His Femme a la Mandolinemarks the transition from the early period to the late one.
As we proceeded I heard the sound of a rich alto voice singing very sweetly to a mandoline some soothing or religious melody.
At a few words from John, addressed to him in his own language, he set down his mandoline and left the room, pulling to the curtain and shutting a door behind it.
I asked how he had learnt to play so well, and our host said that all barbers played the mandoline well.
During supper, music was provided; a young man, a barber, sat near and played the mandoline beautifully.
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