In different museums in Germany, Austria and Italy for instance, there are shown a lot of 6 course mandolines that had been originally made in the 18th century. So it is very hard to decide which instrument is the "best model" to make a copy of. I decided myself to use this Bosi model. It is an model from the middle of that period, very well constructed and the results are interesting. It's size is not so typical, as it is really round in outline but with a flat mould what gives a bright clear tone and it is not so big as later models sometimes are. zierlich und klein sind. Größer gehaltene Instrumente sind moderne Adaptionen die der seinerzeit doch sehr intimen Musizierpraxis nicht gerecht werden. Als Hersteller historischer Nachbauten habe ich mich darauf festgelegt, mich eng an den historischen Gegebenheiten und Bauweisen zu orientieren, damit die Musik des Barock auf möglichst originalgetreuen Instrumenten gespielt werden kann.

This mandolin will have the following features:

• Body 15 ribs curly maple with walnut spacers, or walnut ribs with boxwood spacers
• Soundboard made out of fine european spruce with the original rose design.
• The neck has a limewood heart and is furnitured with rosewood
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• The fretboard is made from ebony with bone boarders
• The pegbox is made with maple, has an open backside and is glied into the neck.
• For the pegs I use plum wood, a very good wood for this purpose or boxwood and they will e stained black.
• The string length is 31,9 cm - tuning g'g', d'd', aa, ee, hh, gg - gut stringing
• the bridge is made out of pear wood
• The mould is varnished with french polishing

On request othe 6-course models can be offered.