Editing Mandolin (section)

=== Others ===
[[file:Vega cylinder-back.jpg|thumb|right|The bulge on the instrument's back side is visible in this photo of a Vega cylinder-back mandolin]]
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==== Mandolinetto ====
Other American-made variants include the mandolinetto or [[Howe-Orme]] guitar-shaped mandolin (manufactured by the [[Elias Howe Company]] between 1897 and roughly 1920), which featured a cylindrical bulge along the top from fingerboard end to tailpiece and the Vega mando-lute (more commonly called a [[cylinder-back mandolin]] manufactured by the [[Vega Company]] between 1913 and roughly 1927), which had a similar longitudinal bulge but on the back rather than the front of the instrument.

==== Mandolin-banjo ====
An instrument with a mandolin neck paired with a banjo-style body was patented by Benjamin Bradbury of Brooklyn in 1882 and given the name ''banjolin'' by John Farris in 1885.<ref name=paper>{{cite web|url=http://blarneystar.com/BANJO_030912X.pdf|title=The Irish Tenor Banjo by Don Meade|website=blarneystar.com|access-date=16 March 2018}}</ref> Today ''banjolin'' is sometimes reserved to describe an instrument with four strings, while the version with the four courses of double strings is called a ''[[mandolin-banjo]]''.

==== Resonator mandolin ====
A [[resonator mandolin]] or "resophonic mandolin" is a mandolin whose sound is produced by one or more metal cones (resonators) instead of the customary wooden soundboard (mandolin top/face). Historic brands include [[Dobro]] and National.

==== Electric mandolin ====
[[File:Rory&#039;s Mandolin.jpg|thumb|upright=.5|A solid-body electric mandolin]]
As with almost every other contemporary chordophone, another modern variant is the [[electric mandolin]]. These mandolins can have four or five individual or double courses of strings. They were developed in the early 1930s, contemporaneous with the development of the [[electric guitar]]. They come in [[solid body]] and [[acoustic-electric guitar|acoustic electric]] forms.

Specific instruments have been designed to overcome the mandolin's rapid decay with its plucked notes.<ref name= Gregory>{{cite web|url=http://maestroalexgregory.net/id26.html |title= Heavy Metal Electric Mandolin, inventions |last1= Gregory |first1= Alex |website=maestroalexgregory.com |access-date= September 13, 2015 }}</ref> Fender released a model in 1992 with an additional string (a high A, above the E string), a tremolo bridge and extra [[humbucker]] [[Pickup (music technology)|pickup]] (total of two).<ref name= Gregory/> The result was an instrument capable of playing heavy metal style guitar [[Ostinato#Riff|riffs]] or violin-like passages with sustained notes that can be adjusted as with an electric guitar.<ref name= Gregory/>