ebay UK: Electric Tenor Mandola

[scifi]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Electric-B...#ht_500wt_1202

Very exotic shape! Maybe when I would play in an hairspray-metal band........

[Ed Goist]

I'm a traditionalist when it comes to body shapes, though this is cool.
(Still, I'd never own anything like this).
It looks like some specialized carving tool to me.

[Martin Jonas]

The entry for Bob Brain at emando.com shows a picture of this very instrument, but isn't entirely complementary:

Link

For what it's worth, I attach a picture of Dave Pegg's double-necked Bob Brain mandolin/bouzouki as discussed in the Emando entry. Recognisably the same maker!



Martin

[mrmando]

Eep! This is the very first instrument discussed in the "More eBay emandos" thread...

[journeybear]

Zounds! That is one ca-ra-zy axe! Just for the underinformed (me, for instance), how is a tenor mandola tuned? Oh, and what's the exchange rate?

[mrmando]

Guide to British English, for Americans:

boot = trunk
bonnet = hood
lorry = truck
football = soccer
journalism = wiretapping
gourmet = Applebee's
trousers = pants
pants = underwear
mandola = octave mandolin
tenor mandola = mandola

[Ray(T)]

You've forgotten "Rubber - Eraser"!

[G7MOF]

And "Got - Gotten"

The exchange rate is $4 = £2.5 approx.

[Ray(T)]

I believe that "gotten" is an English word we stopped using in the UK about 300 years ago but which our cousins in the US of A still find useful.

Incidentally, I spotted this instrument yesterday. The detailed picture tell you a lot about it - look at the one from the back showing how the strings are attached.

[mrmando]

"Gotten" is by no means a common word in American English. It survives in the colloquialism "ill-gotten gains" and perhaps a few other places. You might hear someone say, "I know a place where those mandolin picks can be gotten for fifty cents apiece" -- but even that use of the word would be regarded as terribly old-fashioned.

[Dobe]

[QUOTE=Ed Goist;1073273]I'm a traditionalist when it comes to body shapes, though this is cool.

I can go either way Ed, though I'm a little tired of the 'traditional'. Here's a cool one ! : http://www.theparlorknoxville.com/ma...ctric-mandolin

That UK 'Dola looks like some plastic that was left on your dashboard in the summer

[mrmando]

Here's a (possibly) useful distinction:

I worked for everything I've got. (In this instance, the speaker is talking about everything he currently possesses.)
I've worked for everything I've ever gotten. (In this instance, the speaker is referring to everything he's ever taken possession of, whether he still has it or not. "Got" would be regarded as the wrong word to use in this sentence, at least by speakers of American English.)

I have gotten plenty of mandolins, but I haven't still got all of them.