Mando 12 Guitar Twelve String Electric Mandolin Solid Body eMando
Inspired by the 1960's Vox Mando Guitar
Available Now to Pre-Order
Belmuse Mando-Guitar 12 String
Multi-Laminate Thru-Neck Design
Fixed Bridge with Six Fully Adjustble String Saddles
Rosewood Fingerboard with Mother of pearl dot inlays
Shielded Control Cavity
Handcut bone nut
Heel Adjust Dual Action Truss Rod
Tobacco Sunburst with Satin Nitro Lacquer. Other colours available
Volume & Tone Controls
An octave 12 is a type of 12 string guitar fitted with a short-scale neck and a small solid body. It is tuned one octave higher than a standard guitar, giving it the tonal range of a mandolin, and enabling a guitarist to achieve a mandolin sound without learning the mandolin fingering. However, unlike a standard 12-string guitar, the courses of strings are in unison, rather than octaves.
The octave 12 was invented by engineers at Vox, which sold the octave twelve as the "mando-guitar" from 1964 to 1968. Notable users of the Mando-guitar include Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. Most modern octave twelves are modelled after the distinctive body shape of the Vox Mando-Guitar. Some believe that George Harrison of the Beatles used it on the song "Words of Love" on 1964, but the Mando_Guitar was not iintroduced until the following year. It was (and may still be, iin live performance) also used on the introduction of the Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" from "Pet Sounds".
Luthier Built & Handcrafted
Every aspect of this investment grade solid body electric mandolin has been hand crafted inhouse at our rural workshop outside Downham Market in Norfolk, England. The selection of tonewoods, the neckcarve, fret pressing, levelling and dressing, inlaying, slotting the bone nut, our unique nickel plated TOM bridges, the nitro cellulose spraying, polishing, wiring, our own custom wound pickups and on to the final setup & testing - each instrument is completely individual. Every build includes a part of me.
All our 4 & 8 string eMandos feature a dual action truss rod, radiused fingerboard, 2mm width fretwire, 13 7/8" scale length, standard 28mm (1 1/8") handcut bone nuts, nitro paint and come with intonation fully-set and low string action.
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