mandoguitar

[Ben Milne]

I saw this backstage at John Mellencamp the other night...
thought i'd post it here for all to see. didn't watch the whole show so didn't get to hear it.

Tenor guitar with pairs of strings, guitar tuning.
good for guitarists who can't adapt to 5ths i guess...

[Larry S Sherman]

Looks like a Phantom "Mando Guitar".

Here's their description:

MandoGuitar®

Unique design, with a distinctive sound made popular by George Harrison.

Just imagine a short scale 12-string guitar tuned one octave higher - it gives the player the ability to play standard guitar fingerings - yet sounds like a cross between an electric mandolin and a 12-string guitar capoed at the 12th fret. Scale 15.85

$699.00

Colors:
Black
Light green
Orange
Tangerine
Triburst finish $729.00

[Ben Milne]

yeh twas a phantom, and there was a black one in the next one as well...
wasn't so much like a traditional 12 string, as the bottom 3 pairs of srings are tuned to the same register not octave...

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[Uncle_Nate]

Ry cooder can be seen playing one of these on this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2FrF...eature=related
pretty neat!

[Cliff D]

Anyone out there played one of these? Be interested to hear their comments.

[John McGann]

"If I Needed Someone"- Rubber Soul (some English band whose name escapes me)

[Scott Tichenor]

That guitar looks a lot like the Spicer Mandolin listed in the builder database, made by Mike Spicer out of Canada. Not sure they're still in business. Their web site, still linked from various places around the web, is no longer owned by them and was snapped up long ago by a bulk domain buyer.

[crazymandolinist]

"If I Needed Someone"- Rubber Soul (some English band whose name escapes me)

Lemme guess, Maroon 5?

Lol I listen to that album all the time. Loveit!

(and I am NOT crazy, I know who really wrote that song.)

[crazymandolinist]

yeh twas a phantom, and there was a black one in the next one as well...
wasn't so much like a traditional 12 string, as the bottom 3 pairs of srings are tuned to the same register not octave...

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Same on a 12 string mate.

[jefflester]

Same on a 12 string mate.

Umm, no. He's saying the bottom 3 pairs are like a mando (tuned in unison), unlike a 12-string where the bottom 3 pairs are octaves.

[woodwizard]

I guess this would be different than the A shaped mandoguitar Gibson was making for awhile right?
Personally I didn't like those.