Hazel Hollow Harp mando anyone?..

[catmandu2]

Anyone ever try one?:http://www.clarindasmusic.com/Hazel_Hollow_Mandolins.html

[delsbrother]

What makes it a harp mandolin?

[catmandu2]

I'm guessing that it's just part of the name. Odd..

[barney 59]

There is such a thing as a mandolin harp or harp mandolin It was kind of a zither looking thing or an autoharp without the auto part. I had one once and never figured out a thing to do with it. These mandolin harps are just plain old mandolins.

[Bill Snyder]

This is a harp mandolin.

[allenhopkins]

Recent thread on these. (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53804&highlight=hazel+hollow) Apparently they are Saga kits being assembled and finished here in the US. "Harp" would have to be a trademark or model designation of sorts, rather than a description.

I saw a "mandolin guitar harp" once, which was just a zither hybrid. During the period of widespread mandolin popularity, the term "mandolin" was attached to a variety of instruments. The ukulele was also popular in the early 20th century, and you get zither instruments like the ukelin (ukulele + mandolin) which is just a bowed/strummed zither, nothing like either a mandolin or a ukulele.

Here's (http://www.rubylane.com/shops/kingsburyfarm/item/889) a link to pictures of a mandolin guitar harp.