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{{Infobox Instrument 
|name=Bandol
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|classification=[[Engineering:String instrument|String instrument]]
|hornbostel_sachs=
|hornbostel_sachs_desc=Composite [[Engineering:Chordophone|chordophone]]
|developed= Trinidad
|range=
|related=[[Engineering:Mandolin|Mandolin]], Mandola, [[Engineering:Bandola|Bandola]]
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The '''bandol''', '''bandola''', or '''criolla mandolin''' is a string instrument in Trinidad and Tobago with four double [[Engineering:Course (music)|courses]] of strings, totaling eight strings.<ref name="Winer2009">{{cite book|author=Lise Winer|title=Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago: On Historical Principles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_n82hsbDJBMC&pg=PA50|accessdate=5 May 2013|date=16 January 2009|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-7607-0|pages=50–}}</ref> It is the tenor representative of the mandolin family on Trinidad.<ref name="Winer2009"/> Another member is the higher pitched Trinidadian bandolin.<ref name="Winer2009"/> 

On the bandol, thelower two courses are strung with one steel string and one nylon for each course, and the higher two courses have all nylon (or gut) strings. The bandol is used in Trinidadian ''parang'' music, accompanied by "[[Engineering:Cuatro (instrument)|cuatro]], maracas" (the main instruments) and the bandolin .<ref name="Winer2009"/><ref name="Miller2007">{{cite book|author=Rebecca S. Miller|title=Carriacou String Band Serenade: Performing Identity in the Eastern Caribbean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FiVBbyEC9u4C&pg=PA223|accessdate=5 May 2013|year=2007|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=978-0-8195-6858-8|pages=223–}}</ref>

==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120522223625/http://stringedinstrumentdatabase.110mb.com/index.htm Bandol] at the Stringed Instrument Database

[[Category:String instruments]]

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