12 string mandolin

[FuzzHugger]

I've had a longtime love affair for the mandolin. Even had a great Rigel for a bit, but sold it for extra cash before I got too good at it...I was always tempted by the 6-string guitar-tuned mandos, but with the single strings, they lose the mandolin sound.

Enter this:


12-string guitar tuned mandolin. I want this so hard!!!

[McSpunckle]

WHERE DO I BUY ONE.


Also, I've always wanted to get one of those Epiphone Mandobirds. The 8 string tuned like a mandolin, and the 4 string tuned like a Ukulele. YEAH. ELECTRIC GOD DAMN UKULELE.

[masked elwood]

wow...never seen one of those....

nice!

[Astricii]

Enter da mandocaster

[bigchiefbc]

I gots one of these thangs, I love running it through a half dozen pedals:



Although I have to say that I kinda dig the standard mando tuning (in fifths), you can get some funky chord shapes and stuff.

[Dandolin]

Do eet, Tom! I've got too many mando family instruments of all kinds, but I don't have one of those. I do have a 12 string Bolivian Mandolino, but it's four courses of three strings each. I'm no purist about it--when I was deciding on a Mandobird, I totally went four string becuse I wanted more cut distorted plus bendability (didn't hurt that I had a couple few eight string 'lectrics already. My latest mando GAS is the Eastwood Mandola:



I mando!

[GiAnt_ROboT]

Sweet mando dude. Heres my 34 gibson mandothingy

[Bassus Sanguinis]

Wow. Looks good, double strings sound HORRIBLE, in the good way, when properly de-tuned and played through a driven amp. Drop the upper double strings one whole octave and You'd have a X-special short scale 8 string bass

[Mudfuzz]

I've had a longtime love affair for the mandolin. Even had a great Rigel for a bit, but sold it for extra cash before I got too good at it...I was always tempted by the 6-string guitar-tuned mandos, but with the single strings, they lose the mandolin sound.

Enter this:


12-string guitar tuned mandolin. I want this so hard!!!

Got's love a acoustic instrument based on a electric


Also check this out.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8yw0_CAJGk[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isFB6wrtLDQ[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdBIYJrBvkI[/youtube]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandurria
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Spanish-Mand ... 0671778265

[jrmy]

Also, I've always wanted to get one of those Epiphone Mandobirds... the 4 string tuned like a Ukulele. YEAH. ELECTRIC GOD DAMN UKULELE.

This, a million times over...

[Gearmond]

i used to have a mandolin, but the string tension got to me

[Narwhal-Industries]

Nothing beats a Mando-bird into a vintage Marshall mini-stack.

[Ilikewater]

here's my more than 100 year old washington banjolin. Sounds like hell, but I think that is mostly my fault. Like a hoard of wasp.

[dubkitty]

so is that tuned to standard guitar pitch or up one octave, Tom?

[one bad monkey]

YEAH. ELECTRIC GOD DAMN UKULELE.

I was toying with buying an electric uke today when I was at Elderly Instruments (I was there for a "Jug Band styles for the Ukulele" workshop), but then I saw the resonator uke and had to bring that home. I'm sure there's a way to stick a piezo on it to make it even LOUDER.