What's New: Gibson Fanned-Fret Five String Jazz Mandolin

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July 21, 2008 | Gibson Fanned-Fret Five String Jazz Mandolin

We got to meet Professor Ed Christian in person last spring during a personal tour of the JazzMando Research facilities while in town for a visit to his daughter's campus in Lincoln, Nebraska. Our common bond of the love of 8-strings has kept us in touch with each other since, and recently we've enjoyed the privilege of evaluating his 5-string project, a Gibson M-6 Mandolin/Guitar resurrected into a novel but respectable Fanned-Fret Five String Jazz Mandolin.

Read more about our hands-on encounter with this intriguing project:
Gibson Five-string

Posted by Ted at July 21, 2008 5:32 AM

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