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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!!!

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.

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

nice!

Enter da mandocaster

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.

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!

Sweet mando dude. Heres my 34 gibson mandothingy

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

Tom Dalton wrote: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

McSpunckle wrote: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...

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

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

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.

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

McSpunckle wrote: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.