Editing Mandolin (section)

=====Genoese mandolin, a blend of styles=====
Like the Lombard mandolin, the [[Genoa|Genoese]] mandolin was not tuned in fifths. Its 6 gut strings (or 6 courses of strings) were tuned as a guitar but one octave higher: e-a-d’-g’-b natural-e”.<ref name=musinswld>{{cite book|editor1-last= Midgley|editor1-first= Ruth|date= 1997|title= Musical Instruments of the World|url= https://archive.org/details/musicalinstrumen00diag/page/188|location= New York|publisher= Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|page= [https://archive.org/details/musicalinstrumen00diag/page/188 188]|isbn= 0-8069-9847-4|quote= ...six pairs of string, and a wider neck than the Neapolitan instrument...|url-access= registration}}</ref><ref name=GenoaMet>{{cite web |url= https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/180013407|title= Mandolin,19th century Italian|author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher= Metropolitan Museum of Art|access-date= 4 April 2018 |quote=  “mandola o mandolino alla Genovese”, this mandoline has six pairs of gut strings, fifteen rosewood ribs, and mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell inlays. It differs from other gut-strung mandolins in being tuned an octave higher than the modern guitar (e, a, d’, g’ b-natural, e”) and having a guitar-like peg block}}</ref> Like the Neapolitan and unlike the Lombard mandolin, the Genoese does not have the bridge glued to the soundboard, but holds the bridge on with downward tension, from strings that run between the bottom and neck of the instrument. The neck was wider than the Neapolitan mandolin's neck.<ref name=musinswld/> The peg-head is similar to the guitar's.<ref name=GenoaMet/>