Gold Tone
Gold Tone Mandocello w/ Pickup and Case
Gold Tone Mandocello w/ Pickup and Case
SKU:MAN163
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The Gold Tone Mandocello is by far the least expensive instrument of its type available from ANY manufacturer, but boasts deluxe features not offered anywhere else. These include the patented Zero Glide nut and a Venetian-style cutaway body. The Mandocello also features a dual pickup system, which includes a jazz-style floating humbucker pickup mounted to the end of the pickguard, and a transducer pickup in the bridge (with a volume control knob and a knob for blending the two pickups), providing a superb plugged-in tone. The Mandocello has a maple back and sides and solid spruce top and is fitted with a rosewood fretboard, an adjustable ebony bridge, an ebony tailpiece and a two-way adjustable truss rod. All of this, AND a hard-shell case is included in the price.
For acoustic players, the pickguard may be removed and there will be no pickup or potentiometer holes in the top.
- Top: Solid Spruce
- Back & Sides: Maple
- Finish: Tobacco Sunburst
- Fingerboard: Blackwood
- Bridge: Adjustable Ebony
- Tuners: Sealed Guitar-Style
- Inlay: Dot
- Truss Rod: Two-Way Adjustable
- Binding: ABS
- Hardware: Chrome
- Pickups: Magnetic Pickup and Bridge Transducer w/ Volume Control
- Tailpiece: Ebony w/ Metal String Retainer
- Number of Frets: 20
- Nut Width: 1-1/2"
- Scale Length: 24-7/8"
- Weight: 6lbs 4oz
- Tuning: CGDA
- Strings: .070w, .044w, .034w, .020w (Doubled)
- Hard Case: Included
- Left-Handed Available: Yes
- Zero Glide Installed: Yes
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I was looking for the right equipment for my Camac Isolde Celtic harp. I did NOT want to install the Dusty Strings pick-ups- seemed like way too much to add. This little gizmo was easy to install with the little pictures on placement- like, less than five minutes easy. I plugged the pickup into my new Roland Mobile Cube and it’s perfect! I don’t hear any sound distortion, and I think this will be just right when playing background music for noisier environments. Super happy with this!

I was excited to receive this kit. I do have several banjos already; however, I did not have a mountain banjo. I have built gourd banjos and ekontings (I went to Gambia in 2004 and 2007 to learn how to play and make them) from scratch, so I am not a beginner in terms of making instruments. I had a lot of fun putting the kit together. I do have a few observations regarding tips or slight modifications in the instruction manual, if interested.
Thanks!
Paul Sedgwick

I am very happy with the quality of the instrument. I am of Puerto Rican decent and it reminds me of my childhood, watching the musicians and learning to play myself. It is a beautiful guiro and sounds amazing.

It's great to be able to buy a hurdy gurdy in the US without having to wait for 6 months to a year or more. The Aplo is a quality entry level instrument that produces beautiful sound. It resonates very well and there are no buzzes or squeaks. Workmanship is very good. I got mine cottoned, rosined and tuned in a half hour. The transaction was easy and it arrived within a week.
I've been able to play some tunes on it with only a few hours of practice. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I love it, the entonation is really very good (sorry for my bat english).
Regards!