Mandola lute

Hakim Hamadouche plays a mandola lute in Marseille

American mandolute by Weymann, made between 1920 and 1939

The mando lute is a plucked instrument that developed from the oud . It has ten strings and is sometimes called the mandoluth or mandol . It is slightly larger than a mandola . The mando lute is a mixture of the string movement of the oud with the fingerboard of the classical guitar . The resulting shape looks like a flat mandolin , but has a deeper and much larger resonance body . The term mandolaute was also used for some of the instruments manufactured by the Dusyma workshops in Stuttgart-Ostheim.

The name mandolute was also used for a mandolin model manufactured by the US company Weymann. These "mandolutes" have eight strings and are traditional flat mandolins.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article about 20th century plunger lutes on studia-instrumentorum.de

Web links

• Hakim Hamadouche plays a mandola lute (YouTube video)
• Photos of a Weymann mandolute (accessed March 6, 2011)
• Interview with Rachid Taha (accessed March 6, 2011)