Gibson M6

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Anyone see or play one of these?

It has a short scale guitar neck on a mandolin body.
It has six strings tuned like a guitar except an octave higher.
It has a teardrop shaped body with F-holes a spruce top, maple back and sides, ebony board and *The Gibson* inlaid in the headstock. List price is $2,250


I know this is blasphemy in the mando world, but it seems interesting anyway :bh

(don't hate me Hank!)
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I found a picture of it......


http://www.janetdavismusic.com/images/m6.jpg

[hank]

I don't hate you spose. Anyway, most of the time .:)

I've played one at the Nashville factory. They're very appropriate for mando challenged guitar players. They have a "somewhat" mando sound to me. They lack the double pairing of strings which gives mandolin the "ring".

buyithank

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yeah, I was wondering about that too. That IS the sound, not just the higher octave.

I just did a interesting guitar repair last week. It was a custom made 8 string hollow body arch top with the high e and b strings doubled like a 12 string. I don't know why I mention it, but the double string talk reminds me of it.

anyway, for 2K I'd rather get a real mando.
BTW - I think I'd rather save up for a nice mando then settle for a cheapie....

[hank]

I'd recommend the real thing, but to each his/her own.

Hey, wanna a really good mando? Here's one that just popped up. It's the right price and I'm very familiar with these. It has to be great.

http://www.mandolincafe.com/cgi-bin/classifieds/classifieds.cgi?search_and_display_db_button=on&db_id=3979&query=retrieval