Re: Goldtone Long Scale Mando-Guitar
I played one of the 6 string versions at my local Sam Ash and, despite some of the comments so far, I actually found it enjoyable and easy to play. Fingers get crammed together for four finger chords at the nut due to the smaller scale but this can be remedied with some minor change in technique and or chord derangement. Ultimately it's just an octave guitar in a mandola body and would probably sound nice as a backing track on recordings. These are surprisingly inexpensive and I almost brought one home for the fun of it as it's nice to have an almost mandolin sized instrument for guitar style vocal accompaniment but instead made a mental note to someday look for a nice octave guitar for the same purpose. In the mean time, mandolin currently serves me well in that way.
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