The Algerian mandole is a steel-string fretted instrument resembling an elongated mandolin, widely used in Algerian music such as Chaabi, Kabyle music and Nuubaat.
Mandola (left) and an Algerian mandole. The mandole has characteristic diamond sound hole.
Algerian mandole from the side.
Cheb Medhy performing with his 5 course/10 string mandole at Roubaix on October 19, 2012 as part of the French group HK & Les Saltimbanks.
Lounès Matoub was a Kabyle singer, poet, and thinker who sparked an intellectual revolution, and mandole player who was an advocate of the Amazigh cause, human rights, and secularism in Algeria throug
Matoub during his military service from 1975 to 1977
Matoub with his Algerian mandole in 1975. He was an Algerian singer of Kabyle music.
Lounès (in the middle with the white shirt) with his friends, notably Mourad Nechab, known to be his favorite, and family in Kabylia.