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wannabethile
Feb-14-2004, 1:38am
i am considering maybe taking up an octave mando or bouzouki. could any of you reccomend of either one? and which one you prefer playing too, would be helpful, thank you.

Lee
Feb-14-2004, 10:08am
I own a Flatiron and the sticker inside uses both terms, octave mandolin and bouzouki. #Though generally, bouzouki refers to a longer scale. As for a recommendation, my Flatiron 3MB sounds wonderful but it self destructed in the humid Philadelphia summer. #None of my other mandos were affected. #Check out the Trillium octave mando. www.octavemandolin.com # I visited once and Robert Abrahms was very helpful and informative and his instruments are quite nice and still under $2K.

Dolamon
Feb-15-2004, 12:00am
There is a very long thread on this very subject (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=16;t=11613) below. A lot of thoughts and ideas were covered here.