Recently new to the home is a 20s Regal Octophone — or the Chameleon of the Mandolin family. The Wikipedia entry boasts that the Octophone could take on the “tone combinations” of eight instruments, the tenor guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, taro patch, tiple, mandolin, mandola and mandocello. I have no idea what a taro patch is, so I suppose they really needed an eigth instrument, because Septophone just sounds weird.
This octo, like most because they are relatively fragile, has seen its share of the hard life. It has several repaired cracks but is overall structurally sound. While a resident of the home, I intend to use it as an Octave Mandolin. My Gibson mandola and mandocello would be jealous otherwise.
This model was so cool, that someone bought the rights to the patent and is reproducing them!
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