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Not quite correct: it is part of a display in the imperial war museum in London. I wonder how many visitors spot that this a tenor guitar, rather than the usual variety!

Well you are very close with the first guess (to which of course I know the answer!), the second I fear will have to be confirmed by someone more knowledgable about Martin tenors than I. Note all the...

I was interested to see this is item in a certain British museum & wondered if any cafe regulars know a) In which museum it resides & b) which model it is, & when produced?

You will have wind back to about March 2008: the thread was titled Mandobird vs Mandocaster (or something very similar) under this same subject head.

Tony: I went on a similar journey weighing up the VIII bird against the mandocaster - you may have read the thread. What I was unable to do was play either instrument before purchase - not the ideal...

There was a mandobird IV in Macari's for about £150.00 - I do not know if it was the only one in stock, or if it is still there, though.....

This is a toughie, certainly as regards the instrument the child is holding. The position of bridge & pick up are not consistent with the common or garden Epiphone mando bird IV. Maybe the mighty...

Paul, my apolagies regarding the typo: - not pedantry at all: as my favourite quote gleaned from the cafe is "speed is important, but accuracy is everything" (attributed to Wyatt Earp) I applaud your...

I thank you - should any one else feel inspired to pen some lyrics regarding "mandobirdious gibson-epiphonious fourious" please put finger to keypad.

Journeybear, have a care! we Brits still have Stirling as our currency: we have not yet yielded to the Euro. Now if I were to suggest the mighty dollar had been subsumed by the Euro I have this...

I think this has to be a brief rest stop for a migrating mando bird, but we don't often see them in the West End of London. Big Chief Eye-Spy will be heap impressed!

Hmmm could be tempted if they come to the UK - but why list under the tenor guitar section?

And now I've just listened to sound recordings......... gorgeous. Damn, damn, damn, I've already just...

Yup, with Andrew's bridge. Turn your cheapo e mando into something a bunch better - but lose the "bat wing" indent under the far pot for a symmetrical curve along the horizontal axis: let's have...

I have an Aphex "punch factory" optical compressor which gives a very clean tone: I tend to notice its absence when it's switched off, rather than its presence when it is on-line, if that makes any...

Excellent, & plenty of travel room on those screws, I note. Perhaps you can liase with Pete (of Almuse) to produce the complete upgrade package!

Yep, well "guitarette" was my improvised terminology to describe what is the shortest scale guitar neck I've ever seen, but a twin neck like this is, I submit something akin to Schrodinger's cat,...

Thought some one might be interested in this - it is in Wunjo's Denmark St, London; note the guitar has a shorter scale than the mando!

Yep, a little off the mandolin trail, but the advice is always good here.

I've been looking at resonator instruments (including a couple of resonator mando's: the Ashbury & "Recording King" (which...

Pete, I wonder if we are looking at the same picture? The Alden bridge/tail piece is less than wonderful, but what we have here is a separate bridge & tail peice arangement on the mando, & some...

So here is the review. Funny thing how you can see a picture of something & overlook the obvious: I thought that this would be smaller than the usual guitar, but the body is bigger & deeper than some...

Yep, Ozark now here. Came with hard case (The supplier did not know if a case or gig bag would be included). Reasonably playable out of the box, although frets are rough (scatrching noises when you...

I did not dare to play it! It looks like it has seen a lot of service & needs a little TLC. It was stashed away at the side, near the back, & I think most people would walk past without giving it a...

I saw this in London's Hobgoblin store earlier today & thought folk might be interested.

I have the Horniman museum fairly close to me & I muse a bout gifting my instrument collection to them. Whether they would want any of my kit I'm not sure, but they currently do not have any...

Thanks Matt. I do not regard myself as a great mando player (there is self help group in London where I play 'zouk) but mandolin was the portal which lead to me almost exponentially increasing the...