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Other names | mandole, mondol |
Classification | string |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification | List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 321.322 (flat-backed) (Chordophone with permanently attached resonator and neck, sounded by fingers or plectrum) |
Inventor(s) | Jean Bélido and El Hadj M'Hamed El Anka |
Developed | 1930s in Algeria in tradition of mandola and mandolin |
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Music of Algeria, Chaabi music, Music of Kabyle people, Andalusian classical music, Andalusi nubah, Nuubaat |
The Algerian mandole (mandol, mondol) is a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin, widely used in Algerian music such as Chaabi, Kabyle music and Nuubaat (Andalusian classical music).[1][2][3]
The name can cause confusion, as "mandole" is a French word for mandola, the instrument from which the Algerian mandole developed. The Algerian mandole is not however a mandola, but a mandocello sized instrument.
The instrument has also been called a "mandoluth" when describing the instrument played by the Algerian-French musician, Hakim Hamadouche.[4] However, the luthier for one of Hakim's instruments describes it as a mondole.[5]
(from concert poster): Hakim Hamadouche mandoluth, voix
(caption with photo of instrument): Mandole HH
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