I'm getting a bit tired of saying I have a "doubleneck electric guitar with one neck in guitar tuning and the other tuned CGDAE like a violoncello with an extra high string". If it had six strings on one neck and ten on the other, I could say "doubleneck guitar/liuto cantabile", even though nobody outside the classical mandolin world knows or cares what a liuto cantabile is. Alas, the "mandolin family" neck has five strings. "Guitar/5-string mandocello" is OK (gets the right idea across), except that as far as I know there's no such thing as a 5-string mandocello. Anyone got any better ideas?
Yeah, OK, so "doubleneck guitar" is probably the best description even if it isn't quite complete.
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