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Ohhh okay, I see. Their instruments are ALL out of my price range hahahahah.
The way things are going I will probably just end up building myself a mandocello.

I agree with Lord of the Badgers, get a mandola!
Or a mandocello!:grin:

I am extremely jealous that you have a store where you can play CBOMs. since getting a bouzouki I spend so much of my internet time looking at CBOMs. contemplating scale lengths and body styles. This...

oh man, as a Bouzouki and Viola player I am so with you on this. Just love the warmth and richness of those low ranges. Leave the high melodies to someone else.
I've been pining for a mandocello....

Wow dude! I am so stoked for you. I have had my eye on the Weber Mandocellos.
I am so enthralled with the range of the mandocello. It haunts my dreams.
but what do you mean that it might be your...

I would certainly tend towards a slimmer nut width. As a guitarist I found it took a while to adjust (this being on a bouzouki never had the privilege to play a m'cello). Now that I've grown...

I've got a Trinity College Bouzouki. I think for a factory build the instrument is definitely adequate and with some set-up you can get the thing playing and sounding great. I set it up with a...

As has been stated many times in this thread. it's a pretty grey area. I think the biggest defining characteristic is the scale length. I've got a bouzouki with unison strings tuned GDAD, I do a...

Cool! Would love to hear some soundfiles once you get them together. I fantasize about doing a conversion like this sometime down the road when the projects I've got on my hands now are done.
Thanks...

That is just gorgeous. It's like the mandocello of my dreams just popped up onto the screen. It must have a huge voice.

One of each! That's the answer I was looking for! ;)



I am probably going to be messing a lot with effects and distortion. Honestly... I think electric mandocello will be really well suited to...

Thank you so much everyone. this has been super helpful. I love how I can come here with all my questions. what an amazing resource!

anyone have any preferences between single- and double-course...

Hi everyone. I am about to embark on the journey of building a solid-body electric mandocello. I've got a lot of things to consider, much of it I have fairly well figured out already. I think I'm...

I am in the Southern Interior of BC. Sounds like I will have to plan a trip to visit Lawrence Nyberg. Darn, I'm coming down to Vancouver Island in two weeks. If I'd known beforehand I could have...

Excellent! thanks everyone. I was actually just listening to sound samples of Nyberg's instruments on soundcloud. it seems like visiting him or Dusty Strings would by the closest place to go.


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WOW! Big sound! Can't imagine that it's easy to do chording on that but I'd be happy to just play one/two note lines with that huge tone and octave strings.

I've never heard of that but it sounds amazing. I've only played a mando-banjo once and I wasn't too impressed with that particular build. I think it was a goldtone. I can definitely see the appeal...

Hey everybody. I have just been loving this forum. I own a Trinity College Irish Bouzouki. It is my first foray into the mandolin family and I am HOOKED. I was wondering if anybody knows of some...

Any way I could ask you post some pictures of your 12-converted-m'cello? Im aa uitarist/apprentice luthier. Fallen love with Bouzouki and mandocello in the last year. Ive had this clunker 12-string...