Mike Marshall On Mandocello 

maybe consider an otave mandoline or irish bouzouki with a little downtuning should come near this? consider it too

Get a secondhand guitar, chances are you'll go far... if you get an archtop, a drill, 2 extra tuners, and part of a set of 12-string guitar strings. :D (Sorry Randy Bachman)

Then you don’t want it enough.

@@jjmuni Geez you have no idea of his situation Atma to come up with such a flippant comment. How old are you?

@@lindamorgan2678 i think he's just trying to motivate him.

Tony Lombardo fact

true

good, because he has the humor of a tomato can

Tony Lombardo u

Tony Lombardo still a fact but I do love the mandocello

So well said. Absolutely spot on!

As soon as he said it I had to scroll down and look at the publish date

Reading your comment, i instantly felt 10 years older in 1 seconds. I heard him say it, but paid no attention to it, as if it still was a normal thing.

oh yeah the prehistoric times when blackberry's roamed the earth! lol

Hey, I stopped using a blackberry in 2021...cause my Priv broke lol

@@phlubblebubblethank you for bringing me back to this video that I had completely forgotten about 😂

I agree, it did sound good. I still prefer it on the cello though. I like it when plays this style at 5:30 on the mandocello

It's a rare and beautiful thing you are into my friend and you conjure a fine sound out of that Weber!

Thank ya thank ya.

I too got into playing the mandocello because of this video. I have a Freshwater that I refined over the yeears to be just fine for me.

The Gator Strut

Idk but whatever it is it's making me want a Mandocello. I wonder if it's any easier than normal cello... or guitar, for that matter. Bass guitar is fairly easy to me so it's probably not that bad

@@SunnyD420 pretty fun instrument

@@joshuaft1 Did you by one since your post? I heard they're expensive and rare

@@SunnyD420 very late reply but I just happened to see your question as I was coming back to this video. I think I was saying bass guitar is fun. Sadly I don't have a mandocello... Yet ;)

Viko I love you man. Even if you don’t. 😜

I was thinking the same thing.

I still think this is the best video on RU-vid

quelin1 damn dedication

@@quelin1 I wholeheartedly agree, I just can not stop myself from coming back to it ;-)

I'm coming back 3 years later to agree

​@@joshuaft1 ditto

We found him down at UPS trying to play the strings on the boxes as they were being packed onto the trucks. He was kind'a in the way but I heard "Mary had a little" and then the cop and the marshal arrived. Ya just never know!

Can you imagine him being an absolut master on the the narrow fretted mandolin?! Check him out alone or in Duett or even with the other „mad“ genius Chris Thile!

+eastwood guitars It depends on the maker but more commonly you'll find - 24.75 inches or 25 inches

Nice researching there Eastwood ;)

The funny part is that I came here after looking at the Eastwood Warren Ellis Mandocello in order to get an idea of what one could do on one.

I've heard 24"; the 25" is the scale length for guitar bodied mandocellos and they don't sound the same, this sounds tight and centered as opposed to floppy and loose, of course the strings have to be higher gauge

efrazable So mandocello can also be referred as octave mandola

Yeah, but you can string a mandocello gdae and play it like an octave mandolin, too

efrazable If you can play mandola then you will be able to play mandocello but the sound will be one octave lower. And if you play tenor guitar or tenor banjo then the notes are the same pitch as mandola does.

I love Bach

Despite what the history channel wants you to believe. The overwhelming majority of people back then *_didn't_* work in mills and mines. Sure, there were a lot, but if you think about it for more than a couple seconds. You'll realize that logically, there had to be FAR more people working at small businesses manufacturing products from 9 to 5 with the materials produced by mills and mines. Otherwise, there'd be no reason for them. That was also the time that college started becoming more available to the middle class (the middle class which those jobs produced).

Gator Strut

Nancy Rose Black have u find any affordable mandocello out there?

Shuy Hdz Not yet...

Nancy Rose Black well, the sound may be worth the price

Shuy Hdz indeed

+MacDougalPuppy ween sold it to pizza hut

+RonPaul Revered Yeah, dude looks like he could be Gene's brother.

Wagmore Barkless its all in 5ths thas why and the bass is in 4ths cgda is a great tunning for jazz and blues you can tune your bass in 5ths if you really want just look it up online

likewise. disheartened bass player here as well. :-)

Wagmore Barkless him and Thile would literally make my head explode

They're not that easy to come by, at least not really good ones. Best thing to do is to search Gbase.com; Musicians Friend or a few other online retailers like Elderly Instruments or Gryphon Stringed Instruments - good luck

Yeah, mandocellos rarely exist in an affordable form, but companies like Goldtone sell Octave Mandolins which are just tuned a fifth higher than a mandocello which might be better for most people used to mandolin.

There are a lot of instrument makers who could probably make something to your liking. I know of many cittern makers who will make an instrument that can hold a tuning of CGDAE, which has the CGDA of a mandocello, and the GDAE of an octave mandolin.. double bonus! That's what I'm after! Regardless, if you wanted a CGDA instrument, I'm sure those makers could help you out.

Ebay has a variety of Mandos for sell at all times . Some of the foreign made ones have a sweet tone for the price . The intonation might be off a bit . They have nice ones come up for auction but the price can be a challenge .

HotRodSixString Eh, I think that more often than not you will get what you pay for. Again though, there are a lot of makers of mandocellos and related instruments. Just look on the mandolin café forum and you'll find loads of builders who can make a mandocello. Don't risk buying one of those Korean ones that will fold up in no time and are out of tune with themselves

EBay has a lot of choices .