Epiphone EIGCMF5GCRBNH F-5G 8 Strings Mandolin (Cremona Sunburst)Orville Gibson invented the modern mandolin, and mandolins have been a part of Epiphones DNA since its earliest days. Company founder Anastasios Stathopoulos first (and only) patent, filed in 1909, was for a mandolin. Gibson Master Luthier Lloyd Loar designed the original F 5 mandolin in the early 1920s, and its eventual success even led to the creation of new musical genres, such as bluegrass. Now, Epiphone has collaborated with the Gibson Custom