Pietro Prosser, the one in my opinion who best knows Gallichon - Mandora repertorie, thinks the same. May be he can explain here something about this subject.
Actually I'm playing mandora in 'Le nozze di Figaro' in Potsdam: still quite unusuall, but wonderfull effect! Diego > Roman, on aesthetico-pataphysical grounds thinks that this is not > Brescianello but Schiffelholz. He is not alone. Terrell Stone has evidently > made a recording of all this and he too thinks it is Schiffelholz. > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
