I am thinking about a 4 string tenor electric - CGDA tuning. Whether you call that an electric mandola or tenor guitar seems to be more a matter of generalization by scale length than anything else; anything 18" or under is probably considered a mandola by most and anything over 20" is almost certainly a tenor guitar. In between is a gray are, but I am not hung up labels. I play electric bass and just started playing mandocello in addition to mandolin, so a long scale isn't too much of a concern if there are good reason as far as sound goes, but it would be nice to have a compact little 17" scale instrument as travel instrument and it would be a simpler build (I am building this myself). But how much different do they sound? I am thinking small solid body 4 string.
"First you master your instrument, then you master the music, then you forget about all that ... and just play"
Charlie "Bird" Parker
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