Product Description

A surprisingly nice mandolin at a bargain price! This mandolin has a teardrop flatback design, a spruce top, walnut back and sides. Plays like an instrument costing far more! Tuning is GDAE. ... Read more

Features

• Overall length is 24 inches.
• Scale length 13-1/4 inches.
• 18 frets.
• Depth is 2-1/2 inches.
• 8 strings in 4 courses.

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Florentine Style Mandolin featuring a beautiful Sunburst finish and Select Spruce top ... Read more

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The Arianna AM10 A-style mandolin features a maple top, back and sides, maple neck, adjustable bridge, and chrome plated hardware. ... Read more

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MODEL Backpacker Mandolin
CONSTRUCTION: Unique To Backpacker Mandolin
BODY SIZE: Unique Backpacker Mandolin Size And Shape
TOP: Solid Spruce w/ F-Holes
ROSETTE: none
TOP BRACING PATTERN: Unique To Backpacker Mandolin
TOP BRACES: Solid Spruce
BACK MATERIAL: Solid Tonewoods
BACK PURFLING: none
SIDE MATERIAL: Solid Tonewood
ENDPIECE: Chrome Engraved Tailpiece w/Cover
ENDPIECE INLAY: none
BINDING: none
TOP INLAY STYLE: none
SIDE INLAY: none
BACK INLAY: none
NECK MATERIAL: Solid Hardwood
NECK SHAPE: Unique Contour
NUT MATERIAL: Corian®
HEADSTOCK: Mandolin Shape
HEADPLATE: none
HEELCAP: none
FINGERBOARD MATERIAL: Morado
SCALE LENGTH: 13.875''
# OF FRETS CLEAR: 12
# OF FRETS TOTAL: 21
FINGERBOARD WIDTH AT NUT: 1 3/16''
FINGERBOARD WIDTH AT 12TH FRET:
FINGERBOARD POSITION INLAYS: none
FINGERBOARD BINDING: none
FINISH BACK & SIDES: Hand Rubbed Urethane
FINISH TOP: Hand Rubbed Finish
FINISH NECK: Hand Rubbed Finish
BRIDGE MATERIAL: Morado
BRIDGE STYLE: Unique To Backpacker Mandolin
BRIDGE STRING SPACING: 1 9/16''
SADDLE: none
TUNING MACHINES: Chrome w/Small Knobs
RECOMMENDED STRINGS: Martin Customized Light Gauge Mandolin
BRIDGE & END PINS: none
PICKGUARD: none
CASE: Padded Combo Bag
INTERIOR LABEL:
ELECTRONICS: not an option
OTHER COMMENTS: All prices & specifications are subject to change without notice. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

Feels right, travels well.
The Martin Backpacker Mandolin fills a specific niche:

It is designed to be small, fit into an easy-to-carry canvas gig-bag (included with the purchase of the mandolin), and be playable.

It plays as well as a quite nice mandolin priced many hundreds of dollars more (like in the >600 dollar range). By that I mean that the strings are set up correctly and the fretting is accurate. Playing/practicing on this instrument feels like a "real" mandolin, and it travels much easier.

BUT - it is not designed to sound good, and it does not. The tone is very trebly and "tinny" (as you'd expect from such a small box).

So.... if you want a good-sounding mandolin, this isn't it, but if you really want a mandolin that you can throw into a bag and carry with the rest of your stuff and still plays like a real mandolin, it fits the bill just fine. ... Read more

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The Legacy O features the hard to find combination of an oval shaped soundhole on an f-style mandolin. Many players seek the oval hole for its unique tonal qualities and the O captures those attributes. It is packed with features including a radiused fingerboard, solid carved maple top, abalone block inlays and a solid carved flame maple back. ... Read more

Features

• F Body Mandolin-Tobacco Sunset

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The body is a solid carved spruce top on solid flamed maple back and sides joined by a super-tight dovetail joint to the rock maple neck with radiused rosewood fingerboard. Sharp-looking abalone soundhole inlay and gleaming gold hardware. ... Read more

Features

• Solid carved spruce top
• Solid carved flamed maple back and sides
• Real abalone block inlays
• Radiused rosewood fingerboard with scooped extension
• Classic oval soundhole

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This mandolin has a shallow, vaulted, staved back in the Portuguese style for a full rich tone; solid spruce top with inlaid wooden pickguard. Perfect for those who want a full-bodied sound with brilliance and low resonance. TUNING: GDAE. ... Read more

Features

• Overall length is 24-1/2 inches.
• Scale length is 13-1/2 inches.
• Depth is 3-3/8 inches.
• 17 frets.

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Mandolin - Spruce top - Black gloss finish - Nato neck, back and sides - Body and fingerboard binding ... Read more

Features

• Spruce top
• Black gloss finish
• Nato neck, back and sides
• Body and fingerboard binding
• Adjustable bridge

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Mandolin - Tobacco sunburst matte finish - Maple neck - Adjustable bridge ... Read more

Features

• Tobacco sunburst matte finish
• Maple neck
• Adjustable bridge

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This flat backed mandolin has a pine soundboard and sweet rich sound. Made in Turkey. Pine body. Laminated construction. A great instrument for the price! ... Read more

Features

• Overall length is 24 inches
• Scale length is 8-1/2 inches
• 16 frets.

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Great sounding 5 course cittern at a bargain price. Made of mahogany with a cedar face. Inlaid soundhole. A very big, rich tone. No truss rod. Tuning is CDGAE. ... Read more

Features

• Overall length is 37-1/4 inches.
• Scale length is 24 inches.

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The GM 110 features a Rigel patented design licensed exclusively to Gold Tone, solid spruce top, solid maple back and sides, maple neck w/truss rod, ebony fingerboard, exclusive Rigel design quick change tailpiece, and gold plated hardware. ... Read more

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This throaty, rip-roarin' roundback mandolin has the kind of projection that turns heads. Cutaway design with 23 frets and a spruce top. Plug it in and the room is yours. Case not included. ... Read more

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Spruce top. Nato neck, back and sides. Rosewood fingerboard. Multi black/white binding. Adjustable compensated bridge. 4 In-line chrome tuners. 12th fret neck joint. Natural high gloss finish. ... Read more

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Cutaway acoustic/electric mandolin, with Spruce top and OP-24+ preamp. ... Read more

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Washburn has been hand crafting folk instruments for 120 years. They build quality and performance into each of their mandolins. This "F" style Florentine piece is crafted with a carved solid spruce top and book matched solid maple back and sides.Elegant styling. ... Read more

Product Description

The body is a solid carved spruce top on solid flamed maple back and sides joined by a super-tight dovetail joint to the rock maple neck with radiused rosewood fingerboard. Sharp-looking abalone soundhole inlay and gleaming gold hardware. ... Read more

Features

• Solid carved spruce top
• Solid carved flamed maple back and sides
• Real abalone block inlays
• Radiused rosewood fingerboard with scooped extension
• Classic oval soundhole

Reviews (1)

More than nice for the price
I recently purchased the Michael Kelly legacy O, and I am very pleased with it. It's not perfect, for there are a couple of cosmetic flaws in the finish. But the sound is divine, volume and sustain excellent, and it is a joy to play. If you're looking to step up without shelling out a small fortune, this might well be your best bet. ... Read more

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F Body Mandolin ... Read more

Features

• Body
• Florentine cutaway design
• Carved Solid Spruce top
• Book matched solid maple back and sides
• Neck/Fingerboard

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Spruce top. Nato neck, back and sides. Rosewood fingerboard. Multi black/white binding. Adjustable compensated bridge. 4 in-line chrome tuners. 12th fret neck joint. pick-up under bridge, a volume and 1 tone.Vintage sunburst high gloss finish. ... Read more

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Bluegrass Instruments ... Read more

Features

• Select spruce top
• Maple back and sides
• Maple neck with extended rosewood fingerboard
• 13-3/4" scale
• 1-7/32" nut width