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F style mandolin



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    Data:
  • Body shape: Other
  • 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. Unlike the A style mandolin the F style mandolin has a small extension of the body on the bass side (possibly inspired by the much more extreme harp mandolin) to make a larger resonance chamber.

Originally the F 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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