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Mandolin played in Algerian mandole style - DD AA dd gg tuning

The mandole (also mandol or mondol) is played in Algeria and France. With it's big pear shape, it's larger than the oud, both in body and scale length. It is not a bowlback, though and has a flat, glued back and sides. I think Westerners like to compare it to the mandocello. It dwarfs the mandolin. I have found it first mentioned in writing in 1932. Like many, I became familiar with it through the music of Lounès Matoub. Some players like to call it mandoluth. The name mandole is the French rendering of the Italian mandola. Itself a corruption of the ancient stem pan, as found in the Greek pandoura and the Sumerian pantur and later found as tam(bur). Though Italians might try to tell you that mandola comes from mandorle, 'almond'. Originally and most commonly still strung in either 1-2-2-2, 1-1-2-2 or 2-2-2-2 in unison, today five and even six course instruments are also popular. Tunings depend on personal preference. The DD AA dd gg I use here has been demonstrated to me many times and I of course very much like this interval as a bouzouki player. I tuned my mandolin down from GG DD aa ee standard tuning. AA DD gg bb, DD GG cc ff and GG DD aa ee were also mentioned as other four course tunings. As far as five courses go, those tunings can be extended into DD AA dd gg cc, AA DD gg bb aa, EE AA dd gg bb, CC GG dd aa ee, DD AA dd gg cc and CC GG dd aa ee. For six courses, I have seen EE AA DD gg bb ee and DD GG AA dd gg cc. The fretting is fixed metal in a chromatic pattern, but it's also common to see quarter tones between the first/second and the third /fourth frets. Some players add more, to play the Arabic maqamat (modes). But the Algerians have, like the Greeks did on the bouzouki and guitar, crafted their own equally tempered modal system. It is used in chaabi, kabyle and nuubaat/andalou music and often accompanied by the doumbek (goblet drum). Something characteristic that is very often seen on the tops, are diamond shaped soundholes. But oud or guitar style ones are also found. Playing with an oud plectrum (risha) has become quite rare, most players use guitar picks. #tambouras