peterk
Apr-12-2014, 8:11am
While I believe this to be an "ethno instrument", I kinda doubt its claimed African origin. I think that stringed up contrivance might have been made in Naples (in Italy, not Florida) as a Carnevale prop.:grin:
http://www.ebay.it/itm/mandolino-mandolin-mandoline-strumento-etnico-/251501051251?pt=Archi_e_Strumenti_a_Corda&hash=item3a8ea17d73
117951
http://www.ebay.it/itm/mandolino-mandolin-mandoline-strumento-etnico-/251501051251?pt=Archi_e_Strumenti_a_Corda&hash=item3a8ea17d73
117951