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• A shape, F sound holes
• Preferred timbers for this model are Red Spruce top Tasmanian Myrtle or Walnut back and sides, or European Spruce top and Tasmanian Myrtle back and sides.
• Hardshell case is included
• Ebony fingerboard with abalone dots, radiused to 12"
• Neck width at the nut 30mm
• Wooden tuning knobs (Ebony, Gidgee or Ironwood)
• Wooden bindings and pickguard
• Modified Brekke bridge
• Allen tailpiece
• Loud, crisp, but sweet sounding with slightly less emphasis in the bass than oval soundhole mandolins..  Excellent projection.
• A Coombe A5 is not a bright, aggressive sounding bluegrass cannon.  It is designed to be a very good general purpose mandolin, with much of the sweetness, warmth and sustain of the oval hole models, but with an F hole sound, and with the typical characteristics of an F hole mandolin - i.e. foreward projection, large headroom and deep rich throaty tone.

Many options are available.  Each instrument is tailored to each individual customer.  Email me for more information.