My mandolin models are always evolving but are based on this design. Although it has an oval soundhole the carbon brace design plus the pitching of the soundboard and body frequencies give it a punch similar to a good f-hole mandolin.
This particular one is a low tension mandolin. (the string length is one fret shorter) This is very handy for a guitar or fiddle player who doesn't want to deal with high tension mandolin strings.
(An .011 gauge E string on a normal mandolin is tighter than the same gauge on a guitar, and is then doubled.)
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