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I have been friends with Stefan Sobell for 27 years, I took a number of the photos on his website, and, according to Stefan, up until last year, I owned more Sobell instruments than anyone else. I...

Stefan Sobell's standard mandola has a scale length of 20.5". I used to own one, and it was, hands down, one of the best-sounding mandolas I have ever encountered. For what I do, it put my Kimble to...

You've got some hurdles to get over. First, the Portuguese Guitar is MUCH more lightly built than a mandola. The strings uses on a mandola would crush a Portuguese Guitar. Second, typical Portuguese...

I have never seen a score of any Nuba, but CDs are available. There is a series of them on Ocora records out of France. They all feature the words Nuba (Nûba) and Algeria (d'Alger) in the title. ...

Almost always with a guitar-style flat pick, though I have seen a few people using oud picks on them.

The Mandole is typically used in Nuba (Algerian Classical music), Chaabi and Kabylian music. Nuba is the original music of Arabo-Andalusia, and is still popular today in Algeria. It is serious...