Mandolin
Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
Price: 510 EUR – 734 EUR
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A six-string F-style instrument tuned exactly like a guitar (EADGBE), just an octave higher - built so guitarists can play familiar chord shapes and get a mandolin-like voice without learning mandolin fingerings or tuning.
About the Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
The Manditar solves a specific problem: mandolins are tuned in fifths (like a violin) with four courses of paired strings, which means a guitarist's chord and scale knowledge doesn't transfer. The F-6 instead uses six single strings tuned EADGBE, identical to a guitar, just pitched an octave up - so any guitar chord shape produces the same chord, only voiced in the mandolin's characteristic register. The body follows F-style proportions with a spruce top and maple body and neck, at a longer 15-inch scale (versus roughly 13.9 inches on a standard mandolin) needed to keep string tension playable at that tuning.
The rosewood fingerboard carries 21 frets with a wide 1 3/4-inch bone nut - much closer to a classical guitar's nut width than a mandolin's - and a two-way adjustable truss rod. An onboard piezo pickup is included as standard, aimed at players who want to plug into a PA rather than mic the instrument, with an adjustable walnut bridge and trapeze tailpiece.
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Sound character of the Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
Six single strings (instead of a mandolin's four paired courses) tuned an octave above guitar pitch give a thinner, more chime-like, less chorused voice than a true mandolin - the doubled unison strings on a real mandolin are what create its shimmering, slightly detuned "chorus" character, which the Manditar's single strings don't reproduce even in the same register.
Technical data for the Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
| Top | Spruce |
|---|---|
| Body/Neck | Maple |
| Fretboard | Rosewood |
| Frets | 21 |
| Scale length | 15" |
| Nut width | 1 3/4" (bone) |
| Tuning | EADGBE (guitar, one octave up) |
| Pickup | Piezo included |
Price history for the Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
Cheapest seen: 510 EUR · Most expensive seen: 734 EUR
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The history of the Gold Tone F-6 Manditar
Gold Tone, a Florida-based maker known for hybrid and crossover fretted instruments, built the Manditar specifically to let guitarists add a mandolin-register voice to their playing without the learning curve of relearning fingerings on an actual mandolin.
