The unison zouk sounds guitarish but fuller because of the dual strings. The octave zouk sounds similar to a small bodied 12 string in an alt tuning. Hulls Gibson acoustic is an F-style mandolin, named for the violin-like F-holes it has on its body. Sound and playability are not affected, it just doesn’t look as nice as I wish it did. 1 with the lower courses in octaves and 1 with them in unison.
Cittern: 5 courses, a variety of tunings, 23 or 25.5 scale, large body. Bouzouki: 4 courses tuned GDAE or similar, 25.5 scale, large body. Octave mandolin: 4 courses tuned GDAE or similar, 23 scale, large or small OK body. If you want to get into mando family instruments for this, I would recommend a bouzouki over an octave mandolin. This instrument would have been $900, but I listed it for $850 because of the defect. As of June 2022, we are now building Mandolin family instruments again. You can see the bookmatched dark lines from the repair, below the bridge in the top picture. Octave mandolins can sound a little thin due to the body not really coping very well with the lower tuning of G-D-A-E that is one octave below regular mandolin pitch. The OM-800+ features a generous 22 1/2' scale (commonly used by the best custom makers in Ireland). Theyve become increasingly popular with mandolinists that want to expand their range of expression on an instrument that they can be instantly comfortable with. The soundboard on this one has a cosmetic flaw, there was a weak grain line in the soundboard that passed through the edge of both halves and I missed it when I was putting the wood together. These crossover octave mandolins that uses shallow guitar shaped bodies are truly a great combination. Octave Mandolins are tuned one octave lower than the standard mandolin. I don’t have any mandolin playing skills but I hope the video will give some idea of the sound. PANGO MUSIC Factory Octave Mandolin We have 26 years Mandolin making experience Our best luthiers can make the perfect Octave Mandolin for you 5 products. The nut and saddle are Corian and the tuners came from Stew-Mac. The neck, sides, and back are cherry, the soundboard is spruce, the binding is curly maple, the peghead overlay is cherry burl and the fretboard and bridge are jatoba. I was very pleasantly surprised by how resonant the first one was, and now that I have built more to the same specifications they are just as good. This leaves the bridge in the same position it would be in on the guitar. The guitar had a 14 fret neck with a longer scale, but the mandolin has a 12 fret neck with a 22″ scale length. The only change I made to the soundbox was to reduce the depth to 3″ throughout. 1937 Gibson L-00 (Guild of American Luthiers plan #55) from which the soundbox design is taken. I worked it out in consultation with the person who placed the custom order for it, and he provided a plan for a ca. This instrument design was originally an experiment.
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