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Here's a sweet Taschenmandoline (pocket mandolin):

https://reverb.com/item/33894923-vintag ... ack-1900-s

Oh neat. I also have a saved search for the Loar mandolins in Reverb, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to pick one up. (I haven’t had a mandolin before, either — they seem like a ton of fun.)

The Gold Tones are pretty nice if you want new....

Here's one for your bandcamp wishlists, a new album from Omar Bongo, a Toronto-based Kaban (Oud) player in the Somali idiom(s).

2019 by Omar Bongo

(His previous album Gor Gor is also available as a name-your-price download. Recommended!)

Noice - I dig that Sudanese percussionist

I finally put a piezo in it. This is a brief excerpt from a longer thing. The percussion sounds are just tapping on the body, though also put through a ring mod.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gtT57SsHoM[/youtube]

Phosphene Audio wrote:I put this sintir/guembri inspired thing together, using an oak dowel, an old test equipment chassis and weed wacker cord as strings. I just had .065 cord around the house and it's on both strings now, but I am going to pick up some .090 cord for the lower string, since the experiment seems to have worked. I'll add a piezo pickup as well.


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Sounds fantastic!!

Diggin' that body.

Cool! I made something similar years ago but is was sort of a banjo in the worst of ways

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SSrzMBHCA[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_SSrzMBHCA

yesh

I bought a 6 course lute from Cankaya Music in Turkey. They aren't a full fledged pro instrument, but are reported to be way better than the 99% of the entry level lutes out there.

It sounds good, but I broke the high string immediately.

Typical 6 course tuning is G C F A D G.

To make guitar fingerings work, I'm doing G C F Bflat D G.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CEAUchYDwAp/

Cool! I've been eyeing those - they look very good. Was a bit worried about things I heard about action and heaviness of build, but I honestly think some of the people bagging on them are conflating them with the more prevalent Roosebecks which everyone seems to hate.... Keep going back and forth about splashing on something on the Dartmouth lutes-for-sale page or just trying out a Sandi/Cankaya....

Surprised not to find more discussion of mandolins in this thread. Although the number of companies producing both mandos and guitars is limited, the two share a lot of genetics and it's easy for a guitarist from Europe or the US to judge a decent mandolin on first encounter. The two instruments overlap in all sorts of ways but the mando has the particular advantage of being small and portable. Check out emando.com for an exhaustive listing of makers of electric instruments.

A separate one for long-scale/doublecourse fans: many Greek bouzoukis pre-1960 or so are 'trichordos', that is, six-stringed. (Photos are misleading because the makers used to install cheap four-on-a-plate mandolin tuners and leave two unused, so many apparent 8-strings are in fact trichordos.) This might sound like my obsession talking but actually the trichordo tuned traditionally in a fifth and a fourth D-A-D is vastly more fun to play and very rock-n-roll with that modal ambiguous tonality going on.

DAD sounds like a lot of fun!

Personally I love the sound of mandolins but I can't get down with them because I find them too small to play. I could definitely get down with a mandola / other larger instrument in the same style. The bouzouki sounds very cool for this.