Northfield NFO-AT3 Shortscale Archtop Octave 2024, Ox Amber

Making more waves in music—catching more chances to create something new. Our Wavelength Octave is a welcoming invitation to the world of possibilities that the octave mandolin lays at your fingertips.  As the newcomer to the mandolin family gathers momentum, the whole mandolin community continues to approach music and songwriting differently and more openly. That’s the kind of opportunity we live for at Northfield. 

We’ve been thinking about this for a while. Making an A-style octave isn’t a new thing—but getting it right; with proper proportions, weight/balance, and the ratio, between the body chamber and the appropriate scale length, has all been harder to find in the market. Even strings for a shorter-scaled octave have been nearly impossible to find. So we went all the way