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    Quote Originally Posted by (G'DAE @ April 26 2004, 20:06)
    Funny how they used "The Gibson", but didn't even put a Flower pot on it.
    Looks like someone just got plain lazy when it came to the scroll work!

    Here's some more oddities...
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    Another oddity from the house of Calace (last posting) is this "turnover" instrument -- half mandolin. half ukulele. I actually owned one of these long ago. Had no sound tho.

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    Some time ago on this message board there was posted a pic of the Paul Stanley tripple neck f-style. Does anyone have those pics still available...that was indeed an oddity
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    I don't think Paul Stanley has a tripleneck F ...

    You might be thinking of John Paul Jones, in which case you can find the photo at emando.com.
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    That's it....sorry...rock&roll hasn't always been my first pick. I think that that one fits the category
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    This one was at Elderly a few months ago.

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    Hey, somebody on the MC classifieds was looking for one of those..

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    Did somebody say banjo killer?
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    attack of the MandoBass!!! Ah!!!

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    Here's another odd one described as far as I can determine as a balalaika-like mandolin. This off a Czech web site that a few photos of my mandolins have been pictured somehow.

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    Weird!!

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    We haven't had any oddities in a few days. here is another one that was on eBay sometime last year. The amazing part is that there is a contoured case that came with this one.

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    Whoa, check out the multicolored string silencers! Beats ol' grommets any day.

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    Wow -- any Wallace & Gromit fans here? That last mandolin looks almost exactly like Wallace's head.
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    And it has Grommits!
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    Here is an interestingly-shaped mandolin by a maker named Delucia from the Top Shelf Music web site.

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    Odd but beautiful. Photo credit to 12th Fret, Toronto:
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    FrankenMouse, That Beardsall is a updated variant of the Kaycraft look. Great stuff!

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    Yeah, love the soundholes in the side!

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    Not a mando as such, but not far from being the weirdest thing I've seen:



    There are more photos of the beast available on the site.

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    That thing looks like a cross between a StairMaster and a cranial support apparatus.

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    Mutant_Dan- I looked at your café profile. Any chance the homebrew came first, the barbecue dobro right after?
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    Quote Originally Posted by (grandmainger @ Aug. 27 2004, 05:19)
    Not a mando as such, but not far from being the weirdest thing I've seen:
    I am a little reluctant to say it and reveal myself as a human oddity, but this looks like a pretty standard hurdy-gurdy to me.




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    Mmmhh... Ze poor little french boy doesn't know what hurdy-gurdy is. Can you explain ?




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