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Originally Posted by Mandobart
There are other, less expensive options for guitar bodied mando instruments. Goldtone has a pretty well received guitar bodied mandocello. Eastman has been making a guitar bodied mandocello for some time. I don't know what they run now, but I got mine for about $1400 several years ago. Here is an example of it strung as an octave.
I also have a luthier friend, Tom Jessen, who has built several A, F and guitar bodied octaves (scroll down the link a little to see one). |
Did you use different strings? Which ones? Any issues with tuning it that way. Sounds like an interesting idea I might want to try. I am never sure what people do when changing the really different tunings like that. Seems people so it on the tenor guitar too.