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mandolinist

American  
[man-duh-lin-ist] / ˌmæn dəˈlɪn ɪst /

noun

  • mandolinists
    plural
  1. a person who plays the mandolin, especially one who plays skillfully or professionally.


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Next year the Ojai Music Festival will be in the hands of Teddy Abrams as the new artistic and executive director, and his first music director will be mandolinist Chris Thile.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

And leave it to an extroverted, stellar and spectacular mandolinist to have already lived up to that title by walking on stage.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2023

It’s a story not only of mandolinist and singer Duffey, but of dozens of other people who made Washington a hotbed of bluegrass music.

From Washington Post Jul. 30, 2019

The mandolinist Chris Thile had already taken over hosting duties on the weekly radio variety show “A Prairie Home Companion” before its original host, Garrison Keillor, fell from grace.

From New York Times Apr. 11, 2019

He did not see himself in the character of a mandolinist.

From Don Orsino by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

It has furnished a number of nimble mandolinists and exquisite dilettants for lazy moods.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

I watched her disappear into the green-carpeted hotel-lounge, where an orchestra of mandolinists were playing an air from La Bohème.

From The Count's Chauffeur by Le Queux, William

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