"Professional Mandolin made by the Bolivian luthier Jesus Aruquipa and guaranteed by professional Bolivian musicians

Characteristics:
Sound box: White Sprunce pine
Finger board: Moradillo
Type of wood: Moradillo
Sound hole: Oval Shape
Strings: Metallic
Tuning pins: Metallic
Bridge: Bone frets
Tuning: La 4.40
Frequency: 4.40 Hz
General Features: ASE-N Electro acoustic System

Approx. Size:
Length: 70 cm. (27.56")
Width: 27cm. (10.63")

A mandolin is a small, plucked, stringed musical instrument, descended from the mandora. It is characterized by: Twelve strings in four pairs (courses), normally tuned to the tones g, d, a, and e" (like the violin), that are plucked with a plectrum, A body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable (i.e. face), or one that is essentially oval in shape, A neck with a flat (or slightly radiused) fretted fingerboard, and a flat nut and bridge, Tuning pegs inserted through the back of the necks head, or machined metal gears and pins in lieu of the pegs, A soundtable with a sound hole, or f-shaped sound holes, that are open and not latticed."