Alto Mandola Vorraro

Mandola Contralto Vorraro modello 1-0

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The forgotten voice returning to reclaim its place.

The Alto Mandola has always been an enigma of the plucked family: loved, cited, used… but almost never treated as it deserved. For years it was misrepresented, tuned incorrectly, confined to a role that did not belong to it.

Here, however, it finally rediscovers its identity.
A rich, noble, luminous mid-high register. A sound that speaks with clarity and character, made to weave with mandolins, tenor mandolas, and mandocellos, restoring balance to a world that, for too long, had lost one of its most precious voices.

This model is born from the need to restore musical justice, to give dignity back to a magnificent and underrated instrument.
The result is a modern, powerful, tonally defined Alto Mandola, built with meticulous care and designed to bring its natural range back to the stage: A – D – G – C.

A voice that is not content with accompanying: it wants to be heard.

Fotogallery

Technical Specs

  • Build time: 4 months
  • Weight: approx. 900 g
  • Length: 760 mm
  • Woods used: maple, rosewood (bowl); spruce (soundboard); ebony and rosewood (fretboard)
  • Finish: antique (matte) or gloss (hand-applied shellac)
  • Scale length:

    • Model 1 Variant → 440 mm
    • Model 2 Variant → 430 mm
  • Number of frets:

    • Model 1 Variant → 18
    • Model 2 Variant → 24
  • Strings:
    • 1st A: 0.14
    • 2nd D: 0.24
    • 3rd G: 0.34
    • 4th C: 0.50
  • Number of ribs: 11
  • Tuning: A – D – G – C (alto tuning, the correct one for the instrument)
  • Range (mod. 2): on request