I can see no reason to suppose it's an 18thC mandora (noteably neck too short, bridge design/position wrong) but before casting it into Stygian gloom of fakery there is just a possibility it could originally have been one of the many 18thC Italian 6/7 course lutes so often depicted in paintings as well as extant examples (eg Radice); albeit with some later (19thC) changes to be played as a guitar
MH --- On Wed, 27/1/10, Luca Manassero <[email protected]> wrote: From: Luca Manassero <[email protected]> Subject: [LUTE] A mandora by Hoffmann (1733) on eBay? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, 27 January, 2010, 16:32 This instrument ([1]http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8jzrg8) is definitely not a 6 course lute as advertised, but could it be a mandora? Luca To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://preview.tinyurl.com/y8jzrg8 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
