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[Description] One instrument or two? Some Trinidadians consider them to be synonymous, while others claim that the flat-backed version is called the mandolin and the bowl-bodied one is known as the bandolin. They are both small pear-shaped plucked wire-string instruments with four double courses of strings .The round-backed version is sometimes made with the shell of a morocoy (tortoise). [Instrument] 
Bandolin or Mandolin
B a n d o l o r B a n d o l a
B o x b a s s
C l a v e s o r T o c k t o c k
C u a t r o
G ü i r o o r S c r a t c h e r
B a n d o l i n o r M a n d o l i n
M a r a c a s o r S h a c k - s h a c k
P o l l i t o s
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