Price: $1,675.00
Carvalho Root Octave Mandolin, Solid Spruce
Solid walnut back and sides with maple binding. Wooden soundhole and armrest
Item ID: GR32209 Model No: ROOT
- Product Features
- Sycamore maple neck. A flat walnut fingerboard with a zero fret. Solid sycamore maple headstock with gold plated machine heads and pearloid buttons
- Wooden bridge and bone top nut. Simple style tailpiece with endpin. With truss rod.
- Made in Europe with European woods
- Product Specifications
- String gauges: .014/.022w/.032w/.044w
- Nut width: 39mm
- Width at 12th fret: 47mm
- Scale length: 565mm
- Max body depth: 76mm
- Body width: 348mm
- No Frets: 17
- Body length: 398mm: Overall Length: 832mm
- Made in: Portugal
- Model Number: ROOT
- New Line. Added to catalogue 21/11/24
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Octave Mandolas Information
The Mandola (the big brother of the Mandolin), has 8 strings in 4 pairs, tuned in 5ths. The Mandola retains the high-tension stringing but allows lower parts to be played. The Tenor Mandola (or Mandola) is tuned as a Viola, CGDA, one fifth below a mandolin. Octave Mandolas (also known as Octave Mandolins in America) are popular because of their suitability for Acoustic and Celtic music, being tuned GDAE, an octave below a Mandolin. Because the Octave Mandola neck is shorter than a Bouzouki it is ...read the full article
