Mandocellos
- Pickup fitted
- Supplied with Hard Case
- Vintage design
- Zero Glide Nut
Gold Tone Mandocello with Venetian-style cutaway body and Zero Glide Nut. The Mandocello also features a dual pickup system, which includes a jazz-style floating humbucker pickup mounted to the end of the pickguard, and a transducer pickup in the bridge (with volume controls for both on the pickguard), providing a superb plugged-in tone. Fitted with ball end strings.
- Hand crafted
- Supplied with Hard Case
An inspired recreation of a unique specialty instrument from the Golden Age of mandolins. The handcrafted MDC804 Mandocello features a handcarved solid spruce sop, hand carved solid highly-flamed maple back & sides with ebony fingerboard & adjustable ebony bridge. Warm & mellow tones with excellent sound projection. See below for specification
An inspired recreation of a unique specialty instrument from the Golden Age of mandolins. The handcrafted MDC805 Mandocello features a handcarved solid spruce sop, hand carved solid highly-flamed maple back & sides with ebony fingerboard & adjustable ebony bridge. Warm & mellow tones with excellent sound projection. See below for specification
The Mandocello is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family. It is larger than the mandolin, and is the baritone instrument of the mandolin family.
It’s eight strings are in four paired courses, with the strings in each course tuned in unison (the same). Overall tuning of the mandocello is in fifths like a mandolin, but beginning on bass C (C2). It can be described as being to the mandolin what the cello is to the violin. It’s fair to say it’s probably the least known of the main mandolin family of instruments and is still made albeit in smaller numbers.
There isn’t as much choice as its smaller mandolin cousins and they are usually played by musicians wanting something a bit different than the other smaller mandolin style instruments. Eastman and Gold Tone are the most current and well made instruments available.
Important with any instrument but especially with the mandolin family instruments like the Mandocello with it having 8 strings in close pairs, a guitar length scale with a narrowoer neck and fingerboard is the playability. Fully setup in our workshop for the best playability and tone, each Mandocello will be ready to play the day you receive it.