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    That said ... me neither.

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    They specialize in conversion to electric mandolin family instruments. Check out quite a few here. Certainly a niche instruments. I do see one acoustic baritone uke conversion.
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    Sarcasm aside, where else are you finding a five-course electric "mandocello?" Back in my army days, I purchased a Univox Asian-made electric semi-hollow-body 12-string guitar at a music store near Ft. Riley KS. (Infected with Byrds flu, I guess.) I held on to it, for little reason, for a few years, then tried to trade it in on a decent acoustic at Stutzman's in Rochester. Eldon Stutzman grudgingly took it in trade, giving me perhaps 50% of the $139 I'd paid for it, and said, "I'm doing this as a favor to you, because I'll never sell it."

    I was working for Eldon at the time (his store was open Saturdays only), and as I remember it later that same day a customer walked in and said he was a Greek bouzouki player who played in a local restaurant, and was looking for an electric instrument he could put in bouzouki-like tuning. Spotting the Univox sitting on a stand, he picked it up, fooled with it a bit, then bought it for maybe $125. I smiled at Eldon -- "never sell it, huh?" He said something to the effect that there's someone out there for every weird instrument.

    So there's someone out there for that 10-string mandocello, bet on it.
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