Check out this Kalamazoo Mandocello. Doesn't look like it's a conversion does it? Anyone know anything more about these, it's the first one I have seen. I'd also be interested to hear how it sounds.
Check out this Kalamazoo Mandocello. Doesn't look like it's a conversion does it? Anyone know anything more about these, it's the first one I have seen. I'd also be interested to hear how it sounds.
Wes
"i gotta fever...and the only prescription is more cowbell!!"
'87 Flatiron A5-JR/'25 Gibson A-JR
I bet it sounds like a Gibson L-50 with 8 strings and minus a truss rod.
I don't think it is a conversion.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
According to Mr. Gruhn the KK-21 Mandocello (same style as the KG-31 guitar)was available from 1936 to 1938. The KK-32 (same style as the KG-32 guitar) mandocello was also built with a total of 2 shipped in 1940.
L-50 size, 16" wide, arched (not carved.... think pressed) spruce top, mahogany back, bound top and back, brown pickguard, trapeze tailpiece, unbound rosewood fingerboard, dot inlay, sunburst finish.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
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