Goybson Mandotar?

[northfolk]

One of my co-workers found this and took some cellphone pictures of it; he knew I was interested in mandolins and guitars? Now, I did not see this in person, but I was informed that the two instruments are actually fused together; on purpose? Enjoy?:mandosmiley:~o)

[Charles E.]

:disbelief: :confused: :crying:

[journeybear]

I guess that's one way to get a double neck ... Oh! The humanity!

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[Charles E.]

Journybear, you are not to be out done. :))

[Ben Milne]

Egads it eminds me of a particular episode of southpark...

[Nonprophet]

Wow. There's something just so wrong about doing that to two fine instruments.....maybe alert the folks at PETAI (People for the Ethical Treatment of Acoustic Instruments)??


NP

[Marty Henrickson]

Well, you could play a SWEET duet, if you had 4 arms and 2 brains!

PS - are you sure that's not a Gibya?

[northfolk]

Well, you could play a SWEET duet, if you had 4 arms and 2 brains!

PS - are you sure that's not a Gibya?

:confused::grin::)):mandosmiley:

[Theo W.]

I opened this thread and was thinking, cool a mandolin tuned like a guitar! I'm not sure when the crying started, but it did.

[journeybear]

I sure hope someone separates them before something unseemly occurs. This could be the result:

[rico mando]

first we lose the play offs and now i see this . can this day get any worse

[Jim Garber]

Wow. There's something just so wrong about doing that to two fine instruments

Maybe one fine instrument and one mediocre one. I would not put a Goya in the same class as an A4 Gibson.

[John Rosett]

You'd think they could have found a better guitar to attach that Gibson mandolin to.

[Marty Henrickson]

I sure hope someone separates them before something unseemly occurs. This could be the result:
Is that a manjo with an OUTBOARD resonator?

[LastMohican]

Wow!

Looking at that thing gave me the exact same feeling I had when I was 8 year old and my brother MADE me go into the side show tent at the Bluegrass Show (traveling carnival) to see a goat with two heads.

[Jim Garber]

This one was built intentionally from scratch. I can't recall where I found the picture. No, I don't own it.

[journeybear]

I think the other approach is better - having the mandolin "on top" so you don't have to reach around the guitar to get to it. Of course, I am a mandolinist and would be playing that one more, but I still think it would be easier to reach around the mandolin to get to the guitar. Also, there is the weight issue, affecting how the instrument(s) would balance hanging from a strap.

Yikes! Look at me trying to apply logic here! :))

Marty - we don't really know what that is. It inspires much conjecture and wit every time it shows up on ebay.

[JeffD]

Do you think I can get a case for it?

[journeybear]

You'd probably have to get two and ... and ... well, you know - make do! ;)

[Marty Henrickson]

Well, okay then. I agree the mando on top makes more sense. I guess you could do a mandolin solo in the middle of a song that you accompaniment on guitar. Or play the guitar in the keys of G and D and use it as a reverse harp guitar?

[P.D. Kirby]

Those things must be built in Siam.

[journeybear]

To be perfectly honest, I don't know what is the point of either approach. I can only guess what was on the mind of whoever did the work - other than the desire to have a double-neck without having one built. I am amazed that this has happened more than once, as if once wasn't odd enough! :disbelief:

[Dobe]

Telepod-1 - Teens Gibson
Telepod-2 - Goya 6-string

IGNITION

Telepod-3 - Goybson Giboya

:))

[allenhopkins]

Hey, i saw this movie: it was called The Fly and Vincent Price ended up with a fly's head and the fly had his head and a spider ate the fly... They had this teleport thing, ya see, and the fly flew into the beam when VP was being beamed across the room. Clearly someone threw the Goya guitar into the beam when they were teleporting that Gibson to me, right?

Better than the Goldblum remake when the girl gives birth to the giant maggot; horror movies used to have a bit of taste, huh?

Anyway, the retrofit pickguard is kinda pretty.

[Dobe]

Better than the Goldblum remake when the girl gives birth to the giant maggot QUOTE]

Allen, that was Gina Davis ! (I Chee Wa Wa )

And it was a baby BrundleFly (in her dream). :grin:

[John Flynn]

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This pic did not post the way I thought it would. The instrument is a mandolin on one side and and a mandola or octave mandolin on the other. The subtitle says, "Just because a builder can do something, doesn't mean he should."

[journeybear]

On the other hand, if a builder can do something, maybe he should. I like this one! It's a much more unified and well-considered design. Might even be practical, and surely far less clumsy to operate than the others we have seen. Strap application might be tricky - perhaps just a pivoting tailpin and a strap that loops around the neck, so the player can swivel it around mid-song. Hmmm ... :whistling: