Price (Item Level): 42,000 gp (17th)
Body Slot: —
Caster Level: 9th
Aura: Moderate; (DC 19) abjuration, enchantment, and transmutation
Activation: Standard (command and manipulation)
Weight: 3 lb.
Bards and other musicians prize this carefully crafted mandolin, which functions as a masterwork mandolin with minor magical effects in the hands of someone with 1 or more ranks in Perform (string instruments). By speaking the correct command words, such a musician can utilize levitate and magic circle against evil once per day each.
In addition, an owner with at least 15 ranks in Perform (string instruments) can use the mandolin to generate the effects of crushing despair, dominate person, and good hope each once per day each by playing the correct notes.
Prerequisites: Craft Wondrous Item, crushing despair, dominate person, good hope, levitate, magic circle against evil, creator must have 10 ranks in Perform (string instruments).
Cost to Create: 21,000 gp, 1,680 XP, 42 days.
Source: Complete Adventurer, page 134.