Mandoline - Violaline

Manufactured by the Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy workshops in the early 20th century. It was invented by Georges Contal around 1900 in Paris.

 The violalina is a mandolin with four double courses, featuring a violin or viola d’amore-shaped body with the typical arched plates of a violin, which gives it greater sound volume.

Similarly, Orville Gibson, who was working in the 1890s in Kalamazoo, Michigan, based the design of his mandolins and guitars on violin construction techniques.