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One thing that I find is that I have to think a lot less on the octave mandolin than the mandola. Yes the note spacing is a lot further apart than on the mandolin, but I can pretty easily use my...

Will a visual help? Left to right....
Mandocello
Mandola
Octave Mandolin 22"
Mandolin
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Daryl - I'm pretty sure we are kindred spirits. I remember seeing your OM on the AGF and it looked beautiful too. I was too busy getting my all hog 000 fix taken care of though!

Just enjoy it! If...

A mandola burns longer.


Sorry, I have a lot of viola playing friends and that joke always roils them a little. :-)

Aww dang! I was going for witty not bad. I'll try harder next time. ;-)

Hey Nugget! Just curious if this happened or not. Hope it's going well!

Hey hey - a little googling and I found this...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhIV-IES8So

This is the one - sounds cool! I'd love to hear it with a pick!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhIV-IES8So

Yep, I'm another lefty playing right-handed. I don't think it is a big deal, of course I'm no virtuoso either.

Thanks Nick!

The picture does look a little more guitar centric -but the instrument to the far left is actually my mandocello. So then in the picture there is:

Collings MT2
Collings MT Mandola...

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So last night I was music director and performer for a new concert with group called Revels. Each season has a new theme - last year was Irish and this year is Andalusian. This was a new...

Awesome Daryl! My MT2 rocks - it is a blonde nitro finish and it is just an awesome instrument. Glad you love yours - enjoy!

Hah that is why I stay away from electric land.... it's a whole new rabbit-hole and I've done enough damage in acoustic instruments. Thank goodness I'm not a builder!

Wow I am drooling.....

Does anyone else feel like Gryphon owes the world some kind of explanation for this one?! Even just something tongue in cheek?

Randi - I think he has the left instrument......

I can't speak to the Pava (though they seem great), but I will say my MT2 is a rockin mandolin. It sounds great every time I pick it up and the only time it sounds less than great is through user...

It's funny, the "bowers" that I know, all look for the best sound instrument they can afford, but the vast majority of them that I know pay very little attention to the amount of specifics that we...

Thanks Nick! I love the Ratliff - it's opened up quite a bit and has been working well with the LR Baggs Radius too!

I just want to put it out there that I would like a mandolin with all sorts of different names on the headstock.....

Gibson, Collings, Weber, Brentrup, Dudenpostel, Lewis, Sorensen, Brock.........

I think this was the most important part! If that is true then do it!

Hey catmandu2 - they are the D'addario mandocello strings - J78s - it was a lot of "fun" attaching the ball ends.........

so the gauges are .022 - .034 - .048 - and .074

I just did a quick recording - no reverb, just a little compression

Keep in mind I've only been a mandocello player for a day and a half.......

can listen here -...

My friend Sam Picotte built me this beautiful guitar-bodied mandocello that I just received!

All solid
Honduran Beeswing Mahogany back and sides
Carpathian Spruce top
Claro Walnut...

You might actually think about the Bose Tone Match.

I bought the full Bose system that the tonematch came with and I've actually been using it as a DI even when I'm not using the actual Bose PA....