Since end of september she is finished: A newly shaped acoustic instrument has been built by Andreas Pendennis Köpke: the scandola. It's an invention of musical instruments. Andreas constructed an absulute new kind of 'acoustic event" following the famous Gibson Mandola Shape and ideas of the swedish Luthier Christer Aadin, Read more ->

The special shape of the instruments head combined with the technique of so called Pin-Capos opens a variety of different tunings. - Really a big challenge for it's player! Read more ->

Proud owner of the first Skandola is Björn Bellmann ,who played mandola before and still also likes playing DADGAD-Guitar. Within german folkformations and other projects he will play the Skandola live and later on also in studio-recordings. Read more->

Contact: info et bjoernbellmann dot de