Mandolin Player: The instruments: The mandocello

The mandocello

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Body shape: Lute

Top: Flat, bent or arched

Back: Flat, arched or bowl

Bridge: Floating or fixed

Frets: Fixed chromatic

Strings: 8 (in pairs)

Courses: 4 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)

Scale: 630 - 650 mm

Aka baritone mando, the mandocello is a guitar-sized (usually archtop style) mandolin tuned like a cello. Coincidentally the mandocello is very similar to a tenor guitar. The only real difference (apart from the tuning) is that the tenor guitar has single strings while the mandocello has double although the mandocello usually has a longer scale too.

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