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The A style mandolin



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This particular page was created 13/12/2004 and last updated 17/05/2005
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    Data:
  • Body shape: Lute
  • Top: Arched
  • Back: Arched
  • Frets: Fixed
  • Strings: 8
  • Courses: 4 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
  • Scale: 332 - 365 mm
An archtop mandolin design introduced by Gibson around 1900 along with the F style mandolin.
  
Most modern A style mandolins are close copies of Gibson's 1930/1940 models, but there are also some different designs that could be considered as A style mandos.
  
Originally the A style mandolin had a round sound hole, but when Loyd Loar joined Gibson in the 1920s, he redesigned it with f holes.

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