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While all of the initial Irish bouzoukis had flat tops and either flat or flattish backs, a few luthiers such as Stefan Sobell began experimenting with carved arch tops and backs, taking their design inspiration from American archtop guitars and mandolins.


Earlier I mentioned that an important antecedent to the octave mandolin, and mandocello as well, was the Renaissance cittern. The cittern, a strummed double-course instrument with a flat top and back, was popular in Europe during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. These instruments generally had four or five courses of metal strings. Citterns, especially later examples from the Baroque period, are almost identical in size and shape to modern teardrop style octave mandolins.


The point is that it matters little today whether a tenor range mandolin family instrument is called and "Octave Mandolin" or "Irish Bouzouki". I believe, however, that "cittern" (actually "Modern Cittern") is still a useful designation to indicate 5 or more string courses.


Also, more than a few contemporary octave mandolins look like small guitars as well. I have seen some that could have been 1920s era tenor guitars with a wider neck to accommodate double rather than single string courses.


Indeed, our own archtop instruments, especially the octave mandolins, tenor citterns and mandocellos are based on the principles underlying the renowned archtop guitars by Robert Benedetto. Our flat top instruments are very much based on best practices for modern acoustic steel string guitar design.


A brilliant sounding Hawaiian Koa octave mandola from the excellent British luthier Thomas Buchanan. Finely appointed 'Flat Top' instrument with solid Hawaiian Koa back and sides and a solid european sitka spruce soundboard. Also features a rosewood headstock faceplate and maple body binding. Please see below for more details


Electro-Acoustic Octave Mandolin from Gold Tone with solid spruce top and mahogany back and sides. Tuned one octave lower than a standard mandolin, the Gold Tone OM-800+ has a low action and a thin neck for rapid playing. Hard case included.


A brilliant sounding Birds eye maple octave mandola from the excellent British luthier Thomas Buchanan. Finely appointed 'Flat Top' instrument with solid birds eye maple back and sides and a solid european sitka spruce soundboard. Also features a rosewood headstock faceplate and maple body binding. Please see below for more details


A brilliant sounding Hawaiian Koa octave mandola from the excellent British luthier Thomas Buchanan. Finely appointed 'Flat Top' instrument with solid Hawaiian Koa back and sides and a solid european sitka spruce soundboard. Also features a rosewood headstock faceplate and maple body binding.


Northfield Mandolins has seriously upped the ante with their new carved-top, archtop guitar-style octave mandolin. These instruments are uniquely sized, with the aim of taking away some of the awkwardness inherent in the typical octave mandolin scale-length and body size. This maple-bodied octave has a deep, crisp tone that's great for vocal accompaniment and provides some added punch for melody playing. Priced with hard case.


The names of the mandolin family instruments vary between Europe and the United States.[1] The instruments that are known in the US as the mandola and the octave mandolin tend to be known in Great Britain and Ireland as the tenor mandola, the octave mandola (or the "Irish bouzouki"). Also, octave mandola is sometimes applied to what in the U.S. is a mandocello.


This geographic distinction is not crisp, and there are cases of each term being used in each country. Jimmy Moon, a Scottish luthier,[2] calls his version of the instrument by both names; Paul Shippey, an English luthier,[3] uses the term "octave mandolin". Confusion will likely continue as the terms continue to be used interchangeably.


Octave mandolin construction is similar to the mandolin: The body may be constructed with a bowl-shaped back according to designs of the 18th century Vinaccia school, or with a flat (arched) back according to the designs of Gibson Guitar Corporation, popularized in the United States in the early 20th century.


The scale length of the octave mandolin is longer than that of the mandolin, and varies more widely, from 19 inches (480 mm) to 24 inches (610 mm), with 21 inches (530 mm) being typical. The internal bracing is similar to the mandolin and mandola, with a single transverse brace on the top just below the oval sound hole. On modern instruments X-bracing is sometimes used.


As is typical of the mandolin family, octave mandolins can be found with either a single oval soundhole or a pair of "f " soundholes. As with the scale length, the number of frets on an octave mandolin also varies widely, from as few as 17 to as many as 24 frets: 18 or 19 frets is typical.


From the mid-20th century on, a number of makers have produced octave mandolins with guitar-shaped (e.g., the "hourglass" or "figure 8") bodies. These instruments are typically constructed essentially like acoustic guitars, with similar woods and internal bracing. The neck, however, is much narrower, and supports the mandolin string layout, rather than the traditional 6 strings of the guitar.


As with the mandolin and mandola, the octave mandolin has four courses of two strings each. The two strings in each course are tuned in unison. Alternate tunings exist in which the strings in some courses are tuned to octaves, rather than unisons, but this is more typical of the Irish Bouzouki.


Octave mandolins are sometimes used in mandolin orchestras in place of mandolas.[4] The mandolinists thus avoid learning to read music on the alto clef; music for the octave mandolin is usually written on the more familiar treble clef, and plays an octave lower than the notes shown (see octave clefs).


Octolindos are a new concept in octave mandolin design conceived by Kilin Reece of K R Strings Hawaii. Having a much larger body than most octave mandolins their sound is unique and impressive with an improved bass response and long lasting sustain.


Octalindos are beautifully made with the best materials available today, their tops are made from very fine grain German Engelmann spruce and the back and sides are from highly decorative rosewoods. The necks are slim with radiused fingerboards and the tailpieces are supplied by custom mandolin legends Northfield USA.


Octolindos have a sound that has no comparison because there has never been anything like them. They are a new and exciting innovation. To enlarge the body of a typical octave mandolin and then internally brace it with all the knowledge accrued from 100yrs of guitar making experience is a smart idea and it has worked.


The mandolin family is quite diverse. Many years ago (around a century), mandolin orchestras were common and the amount of mandolin family instruments exploded. Today we are looking at two of the most popular aside from the mandolin itself.


It is a mandolin that is tuned one octave below a standard mandolin. To make this possible, the octave mandolin is significantly larger and uses heavier strings. It is tuned one GDAE, just like a regular mandolin.


A mandola falls somewhere in-between a mandolin and octave mandolin as far as overall size. It is tuned one fifth below a mandolin. The tuning is CGDA, or the same as a viola. A octave mandolin is tuned one fourth below the mandola.


Most players picking up an Octave mandolin or mandola will more than likely own a mandolin already. If so, either one will be easy to adapt to. The octave because it is tuned the same, the mandola because it is closer to mandolin in size, and the same basic scale patterns work, you just need to match the key.


Most Octave mandolins are flat tops. While you can get Archtop instruments, they tend to be very expensive and there are few options. This is partly due to the fact that flat tops are traditional for the types of music that octaves are normally used for. The good news here is that flat top Octave mandolins are easier to make and this means you can get something pretty nice without spending a huge amount of money.


Octave mandolins did not exist in the early 20th Century, which was the heyday of amateur mandolin orchestras. The primary use of the octave mandolin has been in Celtic music, particularly Irish Traditional Music; however, Octave mandolins have occasionally found their place in modern mandolin orchestras as a replacement for the mandola or alto mandolin.


Octave mandolins have also found their way into progressive folk music throughout continental Europe, particularly in Scandinavian and Eastern European bands. The Octave mandolin is also enjoying ever-increasing popularity among Bluegrass and Old-Time mandolin players.


While by no means a defining differentiator between Irish bouzoukis and Irish Octave mandolins, the former tend to be tuned at least the lower two courses are tuned in octaves (a low pitched string and a high pitched string), with at least the higher course strings tuned in unison, like a 12 string guitar. The octave mandolins are almost always tuned in straight unisons across all four strings. 041b061a72


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