Algerian mandole

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Lounès Matoub with an Algerian mandole.

The Algeria Mandole ( Mandol , Mondol ) is a sound instrument with frets and steel strings that an elongated mandolin similar. It is played in the music of the Algerian Kabyle , the North African Chaabi music and in the Nubas of Maghrebian classical music .

Mandole is the French word for mandola . The North African mandole also belongs to the family of mandolins , but is not a mandola in the strict sense, but a kind of mandoloncello instrument. The name mandola lute for this instrument is common in YouTube videos, but does not apply insofar as the mandole is not a lute in the narrower sense.

Design

The Algerian mandole is a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body . It is similar to a guitar in some aspects. The back is also flat, but the fingerboard is higher and the neck is wider than that of a guitar. The shape is similar to a flat mandolin, but the sound box is deeper and much larger. The fingerboard itself is also different from a classic guitar fingerboard. It has eight, ten or twelve double-tensioned strings. The instrument can be provided with additional frets that allow quarter tones to be produced. Quarter tones are used to play music with Arabic and Turkish melodies. The sound hole is typically diamond-shaped, sometimes with ornate rosettes made of inlaid decorated. Instruments were built with a scale length of 25.5 inches (650 mm) to 27 inches. The total length of the instrument is approximately 990 mm (approximately 39 inches). Width 340 mm (approx 13.4 inches), depth 75 mm (approx 3 inches). The scale length places the mandole in the baritone or bass range of instruments such as the mandoloncello.

origin

The mandole was the European mandola that was reborn in Algeria. The North African variant was developed in 1932 by the Italian violin maker Jean Bélido, based on recommendations from the Algerian musician El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka (1907–1978). El Hadj, known for his contributions to Chaabi music, learned to play the mandola during his youth. He found the mandolas used in Andalusian orchestras to be "too sharp and poorly amplified". Bélido, a music teacher and violin maker in Bab El Oued, changed the size of the "Demi-Mandole" which was then played, increasing it and changing the soundboard structure, the case thickness as strings. The instrument he created is closest to the mando cello in the mandolin family.

Web links

Hakim Hamadouche plays a mandola lute in Marseille
Commons : Algerian mandole  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Mandola lute

Individual evidence

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