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TheBlindBard
Aug-09-2013, 12:30am
Hello, all
After reading the post about the mandoquin, it made me wonder:
What other mando-instruments are there out there? I've felt a banjolin before and that was very interesting. Are there other crazier ideas around?
Thanks :)

Jordan Mong
Aug-09-2013, 1:04am
Oh, you have no idea how insane these get. Harp-mandolins, double-necked guitars with mandolins (triple necks with basses), and so on. Here, I'll like you to a site I posted in a thread a while ago:
http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/hgorg2.htm
Just look around.

EDIT: Check out this one;
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TheBlindBard
Aug-09-2013, 1:14am
Sorry, I'm actually blind; can't see your picture.
I was meaning single-neck instruments, mostly, but that's pretty interesting. tripple-neck base? how does one even play that? :D

Jordan Mong
Aug-09-2013, 1:19am
I don't think I've heard much of single-neck hybrid instruments. Harp-mandolins have the normal build of a mandolin (though not always) with an extra arm coming from the side, reaching up towards the neck. At the end of the arm is a head-stock with pegs similar to that you would see on a harp. Bass harp strings then run down from that arm to the body of the mandolin into an extended bridge (though I've seen two-bridge builds) and run angled next to the neck of the mandolin. They are pretty odd looking.

EDIT: And pictured there was a 3-necked guitar. The top neck is a mandolin, the middle is a 12-string, and the bottom a six string.

TheBlindBard
Aug-09-2013, 2:07am
that's pretty interesting.

Jim Garber
Aug-09-2013, 8:57am
I think TheBlindBard is talking about hybrid instruments like the mandoquin introduced here (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?97902-Mandoquin).

There are also resonator mandolins (tuned the same as mandolins). Tenor guitars, octave mandolins, mandocelli, mandolas, bouzoukis might also fall into that category of variants on the std mandolin. There are also other fretted variants like Spanish bandurrias, cavaquinhos, ukuleles, charangos, etc.

jim simpson
Aug-09-2013, 10:35am
How about the Danelectro Guitarlin?

http://danguitars.com/Guitarlin.html

Marty Jacobson
Aug-09-2013, 11:11am
Or the Gold Tone GM-6, which is tuned EADGBE, an octave above guitar, in single courses, but looks like a mandolin and sounds... bad.

Gibson also made a combo instrument like that, the M-6. Hopefully they have all been converted into mandolas by now. (Maybe not, I guess the scale is too short.)