{"product_id":"vox-mando-guitar-12-string-electric-guitar-1967-6647","title":"Vox Mando-Guitar 12 String Electric Guitar (1967)","description":"Vox Mando-Guitar Model 12 String Electric Guitar (1967), made in Recanati, Italy, serial # 305327, sunburst polyester finish, mahogany body, maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, original black hard shell case. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the quirkier instruments to emerge from the JMI\/Vox operation in the 1960's (And that's saying something!) The Mando-Guitar never really caught on in a big way but remains a very cool and actually quite functional oddity. This is essentially an double-strung octave guitar; some describe it as an \"octave 12 string guitar\" but the strings are actually tuned in unison, not the octave arrangement of a conventional 12-string. The idea was to make an instrument that played in the mandolin range but was tuned as a guitar, as few of the Beat-era guitarists who were JMI's customers had a clue how to play mandolin! A few of the first Mand-Guitars were produced at Jennings' Dartford, Kent factory but the great bulk of extant examples were built by Eko in Recanati, Italy. With its small artist-palette shaped solid body and short 15\" scale neck this is a very handy instrument, and with two Vox pickups has a fairly wide range of tones. There have been a number of similar instruments inspired by this design created in more recent decades, but the Vox Mando-guitar remains the original and coolest of all mini-guitar efforts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOverall length is 28 1\/2 in. (72.4 cm.), 10 in. (25.4 cm.) width, and 1 5\/8 in. (4.1 cm.) in depth, measured at side of rim. Scale length is 15 1\/4 in. (387 mm.). Width of nut is 1 3\/4 in. (44 mm.). All original and complete, and quite clean overall; there are a few small dings to the finish and some light checking-almost inevitable on the Eko-made Vox instruments. The only notable finish marring is one spot where a superglue repair to a cracked pickguard corner left a bit of residue behind. A very nice little player, with an awful lot of chime! Excellent - Condition.","brand":"Vox","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46853011046540,"sku":"6647","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/8702\/3756\/files\/01_7895a968-421b-4246-832d-fa8a1ac0b05a.jpg?v=1774330547","url":"https:\/\/retrofret.com\/products\/vox-mando-guitar-12-string-electric-guitar-1967-6647","provider":"RetroFret","version":"1.0","type":"link"}