mandocellon.
/ˌmandə(ʊ)ˈtʃɛləʊ/, U.S. /ˈˌmændəˈtʃɛloʊ/, /ˈˌmændoʊˈtʃɛloʊ/ Music.
A large mandolin, the bass instrument in the family.
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1907 Ripley Jrnl. (Osgood, Indiana) 2 Jan. 1/2 They have the only harp guitar and mando-cello between Chicago and New York owned by any company.
1914 W. Jacobs Columbia Coll. Songs Mando-cello (Universal Notation).
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Lang. Mandocello, a large instrument of the mandolin family, tuned and fingered like the cello.
1966 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments 327/1 Mandocello, bass mandolin.
1986 D. M. Randel New Harvard Dict. Music 466/1 Other members of the mandolin family are the mandola..; the mandocello, a bass, tuned an octave below the alto, CGda; the mandolone..; the mandobass.
2010 D. J. Cohen & T. D. Rossing in T. D. Rossing Sci. Stringed Instrum. vi. 96 Although most mandocellists play oval sound hole instruments.., there have been some mandocellos made using a 1600 archtop guitar body with f-holes.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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