Mandola
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Mandola
MANDOLA;
Fotis Avgeris
1918-1939
903 cm x 303 cm x 192 cm (Number of strings: 8, string length: 508 mm, headstock dimensions: 203 x 87 mm, neck length: 221 mm, fingerboard width at the bridge: 36.5 mm, fingerboard width at the beginning of the body: 49 mm, sound hole diameter: 60-105 mm, saddle length: 86.5 mm, centre of saddle height: 10 mm, number of ribs: 17+2, body dimensions: 47.5 x 303 x 182 mm, body circumference: 550 mm.)
Mandola made by Fotis Avgeris, with a string length of 508 mm. It has 8 mechanical keys with round heads and an equal number of metal strings divided into 4 groups (2+2+2+2). The 2 thinner strings are plain, while the rest are wound. Its body is made of rosewood and consists of 17 ribs and 2 side ribs. The instrument has: a bone bridge, an ebony fingerboard with 20 frets and 4 inlaid disc-shaped finger placement guides made of shell, plain and mosaic wooden bindings, flower-shaped elements made of shell around the ellipsoidal sound hole, a wooden pickguard, a wooden saddle with bone and a metal string holder with 4 heads. The neck and the headstock are lined with veneer. There are two paper labels inside the body, reading: “ΕΡΓΟΣΤΑΣΙΟΝ ΕΓΧΟΡΔΩΝ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΝ / Φ. ΑΥΓΕΡΗ / ΟΔΟΣ ΛΥΚΟΥΡΓΟΥ ΑΡΙΘ. 10 / ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ” and “Φ. ΑΥΓΕΡΗ / ΟΔΟΣ ΛΥΚΟΥΡΓΟΥ ΑΡΙΘ. 10 / ΕΝ ΑΘΗΝΑΙΣ”. There are also stamps impressed in three places, reading: “Φ. ΑΥΓΕΡΗΣ” (twice) and “Φώτη[ς] [Αυγέρ]ης”.