Santa Cruz Mandocello

[jmkatcher]

I saw in the NAMM thread that Santa Cruz had introduced an octave mandolin based on their Southern Jumbo guitar body. There's a picture in there too, on Page 2.

With a bit of research, I found the press release:
http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM04....lo.html (http://namm.harmony-central.com/SNAMM04/Content/SCGC/PR/Southerner-Mandocello.html)

Did anyone out there see this in person and what do they think of it?

[Spruce]

Here's a pic of it.....

[Jim Garber]

That is a mandocello, not an OM, right?

Jim

[SternART]

They had a prototype mandocello at the Mando Symposium in Santa Cruz.

[halfdeadhippie]

I guess I dig the wierdness in mandocello's so I must say I'm not crazy about the shape being so close to dreadnaught guitar, but I guess it all comes down to sound and playability anyway.