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| | Data:- Body shape: Other
- Top: Flat
- Back: Flat
- Frets: Fixed
- Strings: 8
- Courses: 4 ( 2 - 2 - 2 - 2)
- Scale: 332 - 365 mm
Not to be confused with the mandolin-harp, the harp mandolin has a body extending upwards on the bass side all the way to the headstock. Unlike the harp guitar it doesn't have any extra bass strings. The extension is only to provide a larger resonance chamber.
The harp mandolin was always a rare beast and perhaps not very important to the history of the world. It may however have been the inspiration for the F style mandolin which can be said to be a much less extreme variant of the same concept.
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