12 string mandolin

[magiclawnchair]

i want that octave mandolin.

http://www.goldtone.com/products/detail ... e-Mandolin

[FuzzHugger]

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

I believe it's one octave above standard guitar, as are the 6-string guitar-mandos.

[dubkitty]

so it'd sound kind of like those dealies they use in Argentine and other South American music. sweet. i'm going to have to investigate this further...i'm really interested in fretted instruments that fall between/outside the range of usual rock instruments, like piccolo bass and mandolin-family instruments. there's a little Ibanez travel bass with a 28" and change scale that i think would make a perfect piccolo bass.

[dubkitty]

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.

there are dedicated Dobro pickups by several manufacturers that should adapt to other resonator instruments...i know Fishman makes one, and there are IIRC a couple of others in the StewMac catalog. look around on sites dedicated to Dobros and Dobro playing, or online shops that sell them.

[Radical AC]

I always thought a bouzouki was cool. Longscale mando that Colin Meloy uses on a bunch of tracks.

[dubkitty]

way cool. another of those "if i had $400 or 500 laying around so i could get a good quality one, i'd..." instruments.

[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.

there are dedicated Dobro pickups by several manufacturers that should adapt to other resonator instruments...i know Fishman makes one, and there are IIRC a couple of others in the StewMac catalog. look around on sites dedicated to Dobros and Dobro playing, or online shops that sell them.

Thanks for the info; I'll look around! I have a piezo (a K&K Big Shot) that's on another uke of mine that I thought about putting on this one, but a dedicated dobro pickup would be preferable.

[Adoom]

One of the dudes in my band put a pickup in the one on the right. Thing sounded glorious. My tech dude built an electric mandolin with a bass humbucker in it, which I loved running through distortion and delays.

I'm seriously considering getting one of those Eastwood mandolins.

[The4455]

I'm glad to see so much mandolin love, I have a 1920's Gibson, yes it's amazing, no I don't play bluegrass, only CELTIC MUSIC!

[dubkitty]

I really have to get my mandolin fixed. i have a Gianinni which was made in Brazil and which i bought in the early 80s. it's made in what i guess is a modified version of the Celtic style with a really broad top; the body is almost oval if you leave off the neck mount extension. it has a cedar top with a round soundhole and Brazilian rosewood back and sides, and is the loudest small fretted instrument i've ever heard. i believe it could eat banjos for breakfast. it has a crack in the top along the treble edge of the neck that should be easily fixable, and a couple of small splits in the back that need splinted, and the frets, which look like they were done in ten minutes by someone on their way to a Corinthians match or a samba party, really need help, but i love it dearly. i used to play Thelonious Monk tunes and Robert Johnson on it, just to confuse people.