Who will be the first to build a mandolin like this? Hurry!

[Bernie Daniel]

The world will beat a path to your door -- I am certain. Can't let those guitar folks get too far ahead of us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EAZdiJGWdfI

[Bertram Henze]

The world will beat a path to your door...

...to do exactly what to you? ~:>

This guy at least can actually play his outlandish machine (it's a mandolin with the biggest armrest you ever saw):

A8pUP-3jmMs

[JEStanek]

Lief Sorbye of Tempest (a celtic rock band) plays a double necked mandolin on stage much of the time.
97018

He has several of these instruments (http://www.tempestmusic.com/html/lief.html) built by different builders (scroll down for further links and details).

Jamie

[The dman]

My back hurts just watching it :))


The world will beat a path to your door -- I am certain. Can't let those guitar folks get too far ahead of us.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EAZdiJGWdfI

[Ken_P]

Completely off topic, but thanks for posting that! Bill Bailey is one of my favorite comedians and virtually unknown in the US. He's actually pretty good on guitar, and bouzouki, and keyboard, and bicycle horn :)

[P.D. Kirby]

Rumor has it the wood used to make these mutant instruments was cut from logs dredged up from the depths of the Susquehanna River directly downstream from the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station.

I just have to know how he reaches the bottom guitar or the one above it for that matter and to think I complained about having to gig with my Les Paul. ~:>

[Jacob]

97019

Andy Manson (http://www.andymanson.com/mandolin_family/)

[mandocrucian]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XDZUq1yflDE/S_N-2kmRZoI/AAAAAAAAArA/MPsuE-x0yfM/s1600/steve-vai3.jpg

http://img.guitar-muse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Michael-Angelo-Batio.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qat6CzoPqs0/TBk-uSgrBNI/AAAAAAAAWiU/0QExpOELlHs/john%20otway_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg

[Bertram Henze]

Doublestops taken to the next.

[sunburst]

97019

Andy Manson (http://www.andymanson.com/mandolin_family/)

Hmmm... three instruments, one scroll... I think he's onto something...

[G7MOF]

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XDZUq1yflDE/S_N-2kmRZoI/AAAAAAAAArA/MPsuE-x0yfM/s1600/steve-vai3.jpg

http://img.guitar-muse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Michael-Angelo-Batio.jpg

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_qat6CzoPqs0/TBk-uSgrBNI/AAAAAAAAWiU/0QExpOELlHs/john%20otway_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg

A left, and a right handed instrument. Two can play one instrument.

[JEStanek]

Andy Mason built one that Leif uses.
Jamie

[Bertram Henze]

A left, and a right handed instrument. Two can play one instrument.

Or one can play four, if you happen to be from planet Zorg...

w45_MGmdcaw

[P.D. Kirby]

Did you notice the one in the bottom picture has three big hinges? That things reversible...

[Marty Jacobson]

Robbie Robertson's double neck guitar/octave mando (or 8-string tenor) was the real deal.
97111
The mando/tenor side doesn't figure in, but this track of the Band with the Staples gives me chills...
sjCw3-YTffo

[terzinator]

Fender made a cool one...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NAU50VfmuU

[rb3868]

97019

Andy Manson (http://www.andymanson.com/mandolin_family/)

That guy makes many instruments for John Paul Jones