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| | Data:- Body shape: Lute
- Top: Flat
- Back: Bowl
- Frets: Tied
- Strings: 10 (in pairs)
- Courses: 5 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
- Scale: 300 - 300 mm
The mandour (aka mandwr or Scottish mandora) was a small lute popular in 17th Century Scotland. Despite the name it probably evolved from the treble lute rather than from any member of the mando family.
The most common tuning seems to have been A-d'-a'-d''-a'', but there is also music for it that requires a fourth-third-fourth-fourth tuning (possibly c'-f'-a'-d''-g'' or d'-g'-b'-e''-a'') like the five course renaissance lute.
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