The maker of this mandolin model. Ambrogio Marafi, has left us some fine instruments. By A. Marafi there remained some fine instruments. This special instrument must be related to Antonio Stradivari twice. On one side it has the slim top outline mentioned before and the second fact is the scroll of this mandolino: Exactly the same scroll may be found at an template for a bass viol by Antonio Stradivari shown in the Cremona museum and in the Sacconi book.

This mandolin will have the following features:

• Body 9 ribs cypress wood with walnut spacers. These are the original woods
• Top made out of fine european spruce with the original rose design.
• the neck and pegbox is made out of one piece of cypress as in the original too
• The fingerboard is made from ebony
• The string length is 31,9 cm
• For the pegs I use plum wood, a very good wood for this purpose or boxwood and they will e stained black
• the bridge is made out of cypress too, having ivory boarders
• The mould is varnished with french polishing
• The stringing will be gut and wound gut.