Mandolin Instrument of the year 2023
The German State Music Councils have chosen the mandolin as Instrument of the Year. It replaces the drumset, which received this honor this year.
Although today the mandolin has a rather exotic status among instruments, it has always been an instrument that has managed to build bridges, write the regional music councils.
At first glance, the mandolin, as the successor to the lute, appears to have its origins in the courtly world, but it was always a folk instrument, a "fiddle of the workers", which led to the mandolin orchestras, the symphony orchestras of the common man. It was the instrument of the Wandervogel movement. The bridge to the music of other cultures can easily be built through its relationship to other lute instruments such as the bağlama.
Since 2008, an instrument of the year has been chosen every year and the focus has been on it for twelve months. Each federal state has its own approach in order to achieve the transnational goal: To draw curiosity and attention to the many facets of the instrument.
