Gary Vessel
writes, "I am a builder and player of violin-family instruments and mandos too. I have just finished my own e-mando and it cooks. My interest for the e-mando was to play swing stuff and cowboy stuff. Tiny Moore is my hero. It plays more like an electric guitar and has nothing really to do with a mando except for the tuning. The more I try to figure it out the more I realize that very few licks trade well between the two types. It's extremely fun in any case." Contact:

Gary Vessel
955 E. 900 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84105
801/364-7207