2:49 Yeah this is the Cello voice of the Mandolin family, & it's modeled after their AR804 Archtop Guitar. In fact alot of old Smashed up Archtop Guitars were converted into Mandocellos when they've reassembled them.
Thomastik makes Precision strings you can use on these instruments which are Flatwound strings designed like Orchestral Bowed stringed instrument strings, & they'll save the frets from scratches.
The mandola is the tenor version of mandolin family instruments whereas mandolin is the alto ones and mandocello is the lower tenor or baritone-tenor ones.
I'm not into the relic thing but the MD 814 has lot of mojo. I had one and returned it because I couldn't understand why they put fake ultra white, pearl buttons on a relic instrument. They could have used ebony, ivoroid, or whatever fits with the antique vibe... but white, plastic pearl... I mailed them, they told me they look into it.
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2:49 Yeah this is the Cello voice of the Mandolin family, & it's modeled after their AR804 Archtop Guitar. In fact alot of old Smashed up Archtop Guitars were converted into Mandocellos when they've reassembled them.
Thomastik makes Precision strings you can use on these instruments which are Flatwound strings designed like Orchestral Bowed stringed instrument strings, & they'll save the frets from scratches.
The mandocello is what is to be octave mandola for the tuning.
The MDC804 Mandocello is modeled after the AR804 Archtop Guitar.
The mandola is the tenor version of mandolin family instruments whereas mandolin is the alto ones and mandocello is the lower tenor or baritone-tenor ones.
The Mandocello is a Baritenor (Deep Tenor).
I'm not into the relic thing but the MD 814 has lot of mojo. I had one and returned it because I couldn't understand why they put fake ultra white, pearl buttons on a relic instrument. They could have used ebony, ivoroid, or whatever fits with the antique vibe... but white, plastic pearl... I mailed them, they told me they look into it.