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Re: Mandolins
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Bernard Chasan <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:01:18 -0500
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Clement Lo writes:

>I have read in a music dictionary of mine that Verdi and Mahler used
>the mandolin as an orchestral instrument but it is not exactly common.
>It doesn't tell me which works they are used in though.

Mahler used the mandolin in a major and very effective way in his Seventh
Symphony.

Bernard Chasan

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