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What country still maintains strong classic music tradition with mandolin?
Japan
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How many people compose the Japanese mandolin orchestras?
40 or 50 members
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What other instruments do the Japanese madnolin orchestras play?
include woodwind, percussion, and brass sections.
[ "Mandolin\n\nThe expansion of mandolin use continued after World War II through the late 1960s, and Japan still maintains a strong classical music tradition using mandolins, with active orchestras and university music programs. New orchestras were founded and new orchestral compositions composed. Japanese mandolin ...
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Japan hold and extensive collection of what?
20th Century mandolin music from Europe and one of the most complete collections of mandolin magazines from mandolin's golden age
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Who purhcased one of the collections of mandolin magazines?
Morishige Takei.
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What does bandolim mean?
Portuguese for "mandolin"
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When was the bandolim porpular among the Portugese bourgeoisie?
19th century
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Where can you see mandolins a part of in Portgal?
traditional and folk culture
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Where is the Portuguese mandolin scene located?
Madeira Island
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How many active mandolin orchestras does the Madiera Island have?
over 17
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Who is a famous British player?
Simon Mayor
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What did Simon mayer produce?
six solo albums, instructional books and DVDs, as well as recordings with his mandolin quartet the Mandolinquents.
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Who played the mandolin on the album Tubular Bells?
Mike Oldfield
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What was UK's biggest selling album?
"Fog on the Tyne
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What song by Rod Stewart used the mandolin?
Maggie May
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What group in the US was popular?
Estudiantina Figaro
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When did the Estudiantina Figaro come to the US?
January 2, 1880
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Where did the Estudiantina Figaro play?
Boston and New York
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What group was inspired by the Estudiantina Figaro?
Original Spanish Students
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What did the Origianl Spanish Students expect the American public not to know?
the difference between the Spanish bandurrias and Italian mandolins
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When did madolin awareness in the US become fluent?
1880s
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When was the first madolin made in the US?
1883 or 1884
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Who made the first US mandolin?
Joseph Bohm
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Where was Joseph Bohmann from?
Chicago
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What type of madolin was Partee using ?
French-made mandolin
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What popular musical casted a teacher-dealer?
The Music Man
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What did these teacher-dealers often conduct?
mandolin orchestras
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How many people were usually in these teacher-dealer orchestras?
4-50 musicians
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Who played the mandolin in Vaudeville?
Samuel Siegel
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Who was the famous African American musican and director?
composer James Reese Europe.
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The setting the mandolin was used in until the 1930's was?
ensemble setting
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Where did the mandolins find a new home?
bluegrass
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What mandolin was designed to boost interest in the mandolin?
Lloyd Loar Master Model from Gibson
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What mandolin became the face of bluegrass music?
Loar
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What instrument did artist Bill Monroe use?
F-5 S/N 73987
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What groups have become popular amonbgpublic schools?
mandolin-based guitar programs
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What are two of the popular public school groups?
Fretworks Mandolin and Guitar Orchestra
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Who found the Classical Mandolin Society of America?
Norman Levine
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Who are modern mandolinists and composers?
Samuel Firstman, Howard Fry, Rudy Cipolla
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What family recorded an old-time music in 1924-1926?
Cowan Powers and his family
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Who was the earliest known southern music artist?
Orpha Powers
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What type of mandolin was becoming popular by 1930's?
single mandolins
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Who was considered the father of Bluegrass music?
Bill Monroe
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What was Bill Monroe's group called?
Blue Grass Boys
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What chording sound was Monroe popular for?
the chop
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What keys was Monroe popular for?
B and E
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Who was Monroe's most influential follower?
Frank Wakefield
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Who developed a electric five-string mandolin?
Moore of the Texas Playboys
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What type of music did the electric five-string mandolin help popularize?
Western Swing music
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Who was the major bluegrass mandolinist that became popular in 1950's?
Jesse McReynolds
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What grop was Jesse McReynolds a part of?
Jim and Jesse
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What technique did Jesse McReynolds create?
crosspicking
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What is crosspicking?
syncopated banjo-roll-like style
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Who won several award for his Monroe influenced music?
Ronnie McCoury
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What is Jethro Burns commonly known for?
half of the comedy duo Homer and Jethro
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What type of music did Jethro Burns play?
jazz mandolinist
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Who popularized the mandolin in Western Swing Music?
Tiny Moore
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Who was well known for important works of traditional blugrass?
Chris Thile of California is
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Who are othe rwell know players?
Marty Stuart, Vince Gill, and Ricky Skaggs
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Who got his start with his father's mandolin?
Howard Armstrong,
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Who is the most popular blue music mandolinist?
Ry Cooder
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What other instrument did the Tennessee string bands use?
ukulele in there and a bass fiddle
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Who played in the Whistler and His Jug Band?
Willie Black
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When did the mandolin first appear in rock music?
psychedelic era of the late 1960s
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Who played the drums and the mandolin in the group called The Band?
Levon Helm
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What Rod Stewart song in 1971 featured the mandolin?
Maggie May
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What artist from the Greatful Dead played the mandolin?
David Grisman
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Tommy Shaw sang and played the mandolin in which Styx song?
Boat on the River
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What type of mandolin do rock musicians today use?
single-stringed electric
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Which Irish-American punk band uses Mandolins?
Dropkick Murphys
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What REM song uses simple mandolin licks?
Losing My Religion
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What American rock band has extensive use of mandolins?
System of A Down
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What film's theme song uses a mandolin?
Days of Thunder
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What place in Brazil do mandolins play an important role?
Venezuela
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What is the sound of mandolin associated with in the west country?
regional genres of the Venezuelan Andes
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Who are the famous Venezuelen mandolinist?
Alberto Valderrama, Jesus Rengel, Ricardo Sandoval, Saul Vera, and Cristobal Soto.
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What type of music has mandolins played?
mandolin orchestras have traditionally played many arrangements of music written for regular orchestras or other ensembles
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Where do traditional mandolin orchestras remain popular?
Japan and Germany
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What do the structure of a contempory traditional orchestra consist of?
first and second mandolins,
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What are smalled ensambles composed of?
two mandolins, mandola, and mandocello,
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What are the mandocellos usually tuned like?
cello
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In what phylum are insects classified?
arthropod
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How many parts comprise the body of an insect?
three-part
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In addition to the head and abdomen, what is the other major section of an insect's body?
thorax
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What type of exoskeleton do insects have?
chitinous
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How many pairs of jointed legs do insects have?
three
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What does insect mean in latin?
cut into sections
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What is the Latin word for insect?
insectum
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Insects are a class of what?
invertebrates
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Insects have what kind of skeleton?
chitinous exoskeleton
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An insects 3-part body includes a throat, abdomen, and what?
head
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How does the lifecycle of most insects typically begin?
hatch from eggs
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What is the primary constraint on the physical growth of an insect?
inelastic exoskeleton
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What stage of development differentiates a 4-stage metamorphosis from a 3-stage metamorphosis, notably absent in the latter?
pupal stage
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What is the term given to denote the series of stages involved in the development of an adult insect?
nymphal
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What era is attributed to the findings of enormous fossilized dragonflies with extremely long wingspans?
Paleozoic
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Insects hatch from what?
eggs
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Insects growth is constrained by what?
the inelastic exoskeleton
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An insects developement involves a series of what?
molts
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How many stages of metamorphosis does an insect go through?
4-stage
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