Buchanan The 'Flat Top' Walnut Electro Octave Mandola - Commission Sale
A full sounding octave mandola from an excellent British luthier ...The Thomas Buchanan 'Flat Top' walnut octave mandola has a solid spruce soundboard with a neat inlaid soundhole rosette, solid walnut back and sides, ebony fingerboard with pearl dot markers and a mahogany neck. The rosewood pin bridge has a bone saddle for maximum transmission of sound. Buchanan octave mandolas are double strung as standard.
Commission sale. Excellent condition and fitted with a Headway pickup system. Supplied with a hard case.
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Description
The Thomas Buchanan ...octave mandola or octave mandolin as it is sometimes called in the U.S and Canada, are both terms to describe this instrument.
The octave mandola is tuned G D A E from the low strings to the high.
The octave mandola is tuned one octave below the mandolin. It is a favourite with Irish tenor banjo and mandolin players that can adopt the same G D A E fingering for playing chords and tunes. It is an excellent session instrument for chord work or solo tune playing.
This hand built 'Buchanan' instrument has a scale length of 500mm making it one of the shortest in the market.
Build Specifications:-
- Solid Spruce top
- Solid walnut back & Sides
- Koa headstock faceplate
- Ebony fingerboard
- Sycamore body binding
- Closed plate 'Mini' Gotoh tuners
- Octave Mandola Scale Length 500mm
- Nut Width 34mm
- Width at 12th Fret 42mm
- Scale length 500mm
- Total Length 850mm
- Body Depth 100mm
- Body Width 335mm
- Fitted with a set of eight precision geared, closed plate 'Gotoh' Mini tuners
Specification
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Mandolin Type
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Octave Mandola
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Body
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Body Shape
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A-Style (Teardrop)
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Body Soundhole Shape
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Oval-Hole
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Build Type
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All Solid
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Instrument Top
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Sitka Spruce
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Hand Carved
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Yes
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Bridge
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Ebony
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Neck
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Neck Material
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Mahogany
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Fretboard
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Ebony
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Nut Width
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1 3/8" (35mm)
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Truss Rod Fitted
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Yes
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Number of Frets
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21
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Scale Length
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19 3/4" (502mm)
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Headstock
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Headstock Type
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Solid
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Electrics
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Factory Fitted Pickup
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Yes
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Electro Acoustic Model
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Yes
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Pickup Type
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Headway Mandolin Pickup
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Other
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Right or Left Handed
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Right Handed
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Supplied with Case/Gig Bag
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Hard Case
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Used Status
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Availability
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Available
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Used Instrument
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Used
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