Editing Mandolin (section)

== Playing traditions worldwide ==
[[File:Mandolin Club, Napoleon, Ohio from around 1892 - DPLA - 153ba2c5e31643073f831a6ddf09de8a.jpg|thumb|right|Mandolin Club from Napoleon, Ohio, approximately 1892]]{{Main|Mandolin playing traditions worldwide}}
[[File:Giuseppe Pettine in 1898.jpg|upright|left|thumb|Italian mandolin virtuoso and child prodigy [[Giuseppe Pettine]] (''pictured 1898'') brought the Italian playing style to America where he settled in Providence, Rhode Island, as a mandolin teacher and composer. Pettine is credited with promoting a style where "one player plays both the rhythmic chords and the lyric melodic line at once, combining single strokes and tremolo"<ref name=academicpaper>{{cite journal
 |ref              = {{sfnref|Dickson}}
 |author           = Jean Dickson, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
 |title            = Mandolin Mania in Buffalo's Italian Community, 1895 to 1918
 |url              = http://wings.buffalo.edu/research/anthrogis/oldsite/JWA/V2N2/Dickson-art.pdf
 |journal          = Journal of World Anthropology: Occasional Papers<!-- : Volume II, Number 2 -->
 |volume           = II
 |issue            = 2
 |date = 2006
 |pages            = 1–15
 |access-date      = 2015-03-30
 |archive-url      = https://web.archive.org/web/20150402143811/http://wings.buffalo.edu/research/anthrogis/oldsite/JWA/V2N2/Dickson-art.pdf
 |archive-date     = 2015-04-02
 |url-status       = dead
}}</ref>]]
The international repertoire of music for mandolin is almost unlimited, and musicians use it to play various types of music. This is especially true of violin music, since the mandolin has the same tuning as the violin. Following its invention and early development in Italy the mandolin spread throughout the European continent. The instrument was primarily used in a classical tradition with Mandolin orchestras, so-called ''Estudiantinas'' or in Germany ''Zupforchestern'' appearing in many cities. Following this continental popularity of the mandolin family local traditions appeared outside Europe in the Americas and in Japan. Travelling mandolin virtuosi like [[Carlo Curti]], [[Giuseppe Pettine]], [[Raffaele Calace]] and [[Silvio Ranieri]] contributed to the mandolin becoming a "fad" instrument in the early 20th century.<ref name=academicpaper/> This "mandolin craze" was fading by the 1930s, but just as this practice was falling into disuse, the mandolin found a new niche in American [[country music|country]], [[old-time music]], [[Bluegrass music|bluegrass]] and [[folk music]]. More recently, the [[Baroque]] and [[Classical music|Classical]] mandolin repertory and styles have benefited from the raised awareness of and interest in [[Early music]], with media attention to classical players such as Israeli [[Avi Avital]], Italian [[Carlo Aonzo]], and American [[Joseph Brent]]. In India, the mandolin is played in classical [[Carnatic music]]. The musician [[U. Srinivas]] was perhaps the greatest mandolin player in this style.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tsioulcas|first=Anastasia|date=2014-09-25|title=Remembering Mandolin Hero U. Srinivas|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/09/25/351492627/remembering-mandolin-hero-u-srinivas|access-date=2021-11-07}}</ref> Lauded across the world for his virtuosity with the instrument, he died young.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2014-10-01|title=U. Shrinivas, 45, Indian Mandolin Virtuoso With Global Reach, Dies|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/01/arts/music/u-shrinivas-indian-mandolin-virtuoso-dies-at-45-.html|access-date=2021-11-07|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>