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Octophone
The octophone (or octofone) is a stringed musical instrument related to the mandola family resembling an octave mandolin.〔http://musicaviva.com/encyclopedia/display.html?phrase=octofone〕 It was marketed by Regal Musical Instrument Company, who introduced it 21 January 1928, as an "eight-purpose instrument".〔(The Music Trade Review, 28 January 1928, "Regal Co. introduces the new Octophone" )〕
The name "Octophone" came from the idea that the instrument could take on the "tone combinations" of eight instruments, the tenor guitar, tenor banjo, ukulele, taro patch, tiple, mandolin, mandola and mandocello. Changing from one instrument to another was a matter of changing the tuning. The instrument came with an instruction book that told owners "how to use, how to tune and how to play" the instrument〔
==Construction==
The instrument measures 33.5 inches long, 10 5/8 inches wide at lower end, 3 1/8 deep at the end block. It has a scale of 21 3/8 inches.〔〔(Mandolin Cafe forum, ''Regal Octophone'', plunkett5, February, 2003 )〕
Owners of octophones have said that the instrument is made with birch neck, neck block, sides and back and a top made of spruce.〔(Musurgia Musical Instruments, ''Regal Octofone , c. 1928'' )〕〔(Cafe forum, "Regal-octophone" allenhopkins, Jun-05-2007 )〕〔(Worthpoint, ''Regal Octophone Octave Mandolin'' )〕 The neck is attached to the body with a 3/4 inch wooden dowel stuck into a hole in the neck block, rather than a strong joint such as the dovetail used on some guitars and mandolins. The instruments were lightly built and fragile, or have grown fragile with age.〔(Mandolin Cafe forum, ''Regal Octofone'' Andrew C. Jerman, October 2002 )〕
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