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Location: Iowa | While browsing ebay I noticed an Ovation Mandocello for sale. What exactly is a mandocello? I suppose it's like a large mandolin, but i thought i'd get a more accurate response from yall. Has anyone here played one? |
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Location: Florida | think...a twelve string guitar without the high B and E strings, and... the Low E, A, D, and G are all wound, not wound/plain combination. And the EADG are not EADG by GDAE, tuned to fifths not fourths. The low string is a G, while the high is an E.
Its got 4 pairs of two strings, guitar length (or thereabouts).
Mandolin has about 13-1/2 inch scale
Mandola has about 17-19 inch scale
Mandochello is about 25 inches, and I think this is what they also call an octave mandolin.
There's also this thing called a piccolo-mandolin, with a 10 inch scale (or 9-1/2... its pretty rare bird). |
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Location: Upper Left USA | It's a Mandolin supersized. They play together real well.
Stringinstrument, had one for sale about 9 months ago. They show up now and then. Not as rare as honest politicians. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | They are great big mandolins, and if I didn't have sometimers disease I'd be able to tell you which female country star featured one in a video of her hit song. It sounded great.
Bailey
If I remember I'll post the name. |
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Location: puerto vallarta, mexico | sleep on it amigo! |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's the same scale as the acoustic guitar. All we did was put 8 holes in the peghead instead of 6, and a bass bridge with 2 holes in each teardrop instead of 1 and made the bridge guitar sized. Make a new nut and move the side marker from the 9th fret to the 10th to be correct.
They are amazing instruments. The 10,000th Adamas is a mandocello and has a hugh sound. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | A guitar missing strings, remaining strings in courses of two, and tuned upside down. |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Mandolin is to Violin as
Mandola is to Viola as
Mandocello is to Cello
I'd love to add a Mandocello
Here's the official OVation web site page:
Mandocello |
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Location: Texas | The mandolin and violin family are cousins.
Violin - Mandolin
Viola - Mandola
Cello - Mandocello
Upright Bass - Mandobass (yes folks, Gibson had a mandobass in their catalog)
Gibson and other companies developed the full Mandolin family of instruments during the teens of the 20th century for the music played by mandolin orchestras that were popular at the time.
Later on with an interest in this instruments in the 70s and 80s from artists like David Grisman and others from the "New Acoustic Music" scene, there was a kind of a revival of building new versions of original Gibson models of mandolas and mandocellos by great mandolin builders like Monteleone, Gilchrist as well as Kentucky mandolins from Japan.
Later on Ovation also decided to build mandolins and mandocellos.
Serge
www.sergiolara.com ;) |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Actually we made the mandolynn and thought that there would be BIGGG resistance to it. I mean guitarists hated the bowl and you'd think mandoests would be even more so "that way"
Not the case, It was well recieved from the get go. They said it was in sound, "right between an A style and F style" I axed tham if that was the best of both worlds of no-man's land in between. The answer was the first.
So it was well recieved and put into production. DJ said he was glad to see it launched happy to see it out of the engineering dept. "What ever you do Bill, don't ask for a mandocello" So naturally I reply "Right, make me one. By the way, what is it?" |
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Just curious...