Those electrics are interesting - the sound would be more dependent on the pickup rather than the materials/construction right?
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I guess everything can affect the sound of an electric but I'll go out on a limb and say the elctronics will influence the sound more than anything else.
This thread has become our repository for these mandolins. We seem to get several a month and I try and send them here and link back as well.
Here is one branded Bruno Maxitone
Here is another branded Citation.
Yet another one can be found here with the B and backwards B label.
Here's one labeled Hohner.
Someone is about to pay more money than they should for one of these on eBay. They say it's a Gibson. It isn't.
At least the seller is covering his/her b*tt / caveat emptor...etc.:
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On Aug-20-12 at 11:31:37 PDT, seller added the following information:
I HAVE GOTTEN A FEW EMAILS STATING THAT THIS IS NOT A GIBSON. I WAS TOLD IT WAS HOWEVER, I AM THINKING FROM THE EMAILS THAT SEEM TO BE PRETTY KNOWLEDGEABLE THAT THIS IS NOT A GIBSON. HOWEVER, I AM UNSURE WHO THE MAKE IS. SO PLAN AND BID ACCORDINGLY
And yet another with no brand name on it can be found here.
Heck, here's another one my brother gifted to my sonAttachment 90928Attachment 90929Attachment 90930
My brother thinks it's an older one, but I'm not sure...just another old no-name mando as far as I can see
Here is an electric model labeled Harmony.
Here's another one labeled Harmony.
Here's another with no brand name.
Here's one labeled Rhapsody
An interesting eBay auction can be found here.
Here's one with the elusive double B brand on it.
Here is another electric with the Harmony label. This one might have been imported by Harmony in their final throws before they closed the company.
Perhaps the most desirable of all of the mandolins built in this genre, the elusive imported Strad-O-Lin that is the same as all the rest of them. Now on eBay at an inflated price.
Here's one in the classifieds today with the Kent Brand Name at four times the going eBay price. Although the ad says it's from the 60's in the heading it's circa late 70's-80's.
Here is one labeled Renata.
Here is an unlabeled one.