Gold Tone Resonator Mandolin

[Dano Reible]

I have recieved a posible resonator via my wanted add but can not find any info about a Gold Tone Resonator Mandolin. Anyone have one, seen one?

[BlueMountain]

I don't suppose you are accidentally referring to the Gold Tone MandoBanjo, are you? It DOES have a resonator, and that may have confused the person who wrote to you. See http://www.goldtone.com/products/pages/mb-850.asp
Have you played a resonator mandolin before? I haven't. I love dobros, and I like some metal-bodied guitars. However, I was at a web site for a music store in England that had an mp3 of a resonator mandolin being played. (Czech-made, as I recall.) It was unbearable--one of the least pleasant sounds I've ever heard from an instrument. I had been thinking of buying one, but after hearing that, I lost interest.

[Dano Reible]

You are right it was a mandobanjo and I let him know that was not what I was looking for.
I do love the sound of a nice dobro guitar and was hoping for some of the same but maybe that is not what I would get. No I have never heard one in person.

This is driving me (and others I'm sure) crazy. I have the new SA comming and I want to have something a bit diff than that to go with it insted of my Eastman. Why I even need two mandos I do not know. A dire case of MAS with a good backing of rasionalation (sp?) to go along with it. I started out looking for an oval hole to trsde my 515 for and I have gone full circle.
I think I need professional help
Someone call me and tell me I am not crazy for wanting two mandos.

Better get this truck rolling again, I'm in ohio heading for Baltimore and from what I hear some bad weather.

[Jim Yates]

One of my students has a metal bodied Johnson which was very reasonably priced. He plays mostly blues and jug-band music with it. His hero is Yank Rachell. I think they sound pretty good for this type of music, but I wouldn't want one for fiddle tunes.