My mando is a couple months old. #i found that early on, after a couple of days it would go a little flat and i would re-tune. #i am now finding that even after a day or two everything has gotten sharp. #is this a humidity issue? #or is it a new mandolin issue? #Thanks in advance.
On the humid days, my Gilly consistently goes sharp, due to the swelling wood.
Thanks. that's reassuring.
While playing outside at festivals my mandos tuning changes as the temperature changes.
I once had a wise mandolin teacher tell me that "mandolins are much like their owners, tightly wound." #While this is mostly for humor, I can tell you that I have played in church before...and from the time I took the mando out and tuned it to the time we played (about 45 minutes), the mandolin was out of tune enough that when I began my solo on a gospel medley, it sounded like a sick cat. #I thought I had fingered the wrong string, so I started over and got the same result and suffered through the song. #What had happened...the A/C in the church had dropped the temp about 10 deg F and the mandolin was about a 1/4 step off. #They can be very sensitive to environmental changes. #Fortunately, by the second service everything was settled...those poor folks in first service were only half awake
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