Guitars were originally all five string, tuned just like the modern instrument, but without the low E. It was a hundred years before someone added it. Guitar tuning is hard to beat, and a lot of...
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Guitars were originally all five string, tuned just like the modern instrument, but without the low E. It was a hundred years before someone added it. Guitar tuning is hard to beat, and a lot of...
Does anyone else use flat fifth tuning. I play eight string electric mandolin, and it would work very well for a five string. The stepwise progression makes it easier for both chords and melody. G...
Hi David, I have struggled with my mandola for 18 months. I finally gave up the standard tuning in fifths, and I'm now using guitar strings. tuning: GCEA.
17 inch scale length.
I have small...
Hi Carolie, I think we all suffer left hand strain to some extent. I train by doing completely different exercises such as learning to type, piano scales with the left hand, and finger tapping...
I'm with the innocent bystander. The mandolin is such a logical instrument that all the stuff in the circle of fifths diagram is right there on the fretboard. Intervals always have the same geometric...
I always try to keep that gap in the V, but I get an ache in the ball of my thumb. I get relief by alternating three positions during practice. The "gap V", #no thumb or palm contact at all, and full...
You might want to check the recent thread titled BEAD. #I put it the wrong way round. it should have been D,A,E,B. #This solves a lot of problems, as you just move your fingers over one string, and...
Thanks Dave. I'm finding it has to be quite a small file. 3rd attempt! #Martin
Hi, Can anyone explain how to send a picture to the message board?
re string tension, I wanted to measure it myself so as not to take any chances. I didn't want to overstress the instrument,...
OK, I'll take a picture tomorrow. Martin
Hi Kevin, I've been away, hope you get this. I measured the string tension by rigging a kind of jig in the shed. The loop,or ball, end nailed to a rafter with a bridge just below it, and exactly 17...
Thanks for ;your responses. I find them to be quite an endorsement as I has not heard of this tuning before. I use sting gauges 12, 18, 28, and 42. They all have a tension of 25 lbs. (total 200lb) I...
Hi, I'm new to the mando cafe, apart from one posting a few years ago. I now play mandola , and I've chosen to tune it (with appropriate strings) to B E A D. Highest to lowest strings. It took quite...
JGWoods asked why the correct guage would eliminate the need for compensation. My understanding of it is like this. Bending a string increases tension and therefore pitch. Depressing the string onto...
Well I really do appreciate the responses to my topic. It's a kind of endorsement, and much needed as several people have looked pretty dubious when I explained what I had done.
This whole thing...
Hi, I am an amateur player with an interest in the physics of sound, and a tendency to tinker with things!
I have rebuilt the bridge on my Kuntucky, and to make it as light as possible I...
I have modified the bridge on my Kentucky, making it lighter. At the same time I have leaned it back slightly to split the string angle more evenly. It seems to me this will enhance transmission of...