I decided to move from the guitar to the mandola. I am having a mandola custom built and am debating deviating slightly from the traditional positions of the fingerboard markers. I am considering whether to move the marker from the 3rd fret to the 2nd fret.
The 3rd fret position on the guitar makes sense to me as it marks not only the minor 3rd, but also the notes G, C, F on strings 6-4 and D, G on strings 2 and 1. However on the mandola (tuned CGDA), leaving the marker on the 3rd fret would still mark the minor 3rd, but would reference notes Eb, Bb, F, C as opposed to moving it to the 2nd fret which would reference notes D, A, E, B.
I understand that a mandola is intended more for melody work rather than chord strumming/rhythm work. Given that, I wanted to get people's thoughts on the usefulness of marking the minor 3rd versus marking a series of notes.
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