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Yes Chladni patterns will show you if the stiffness of the top is symmetrical or not. It won't necessarily show you if your carving is symmetrical or not because wood stiffness is not always...

The sample is not random because I don't want to make mandolins with randomized sounds. That is the whole point of making measurements, to become more consistent with the final resulting sound, it...

A bit late here. I will add that there are many softwares capable of much more than you need to capture taptones and such. Some of it free. Many violin folks like Audacity for frequancy plots and...

For the unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cithrinchen

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Went down that rabbit hole many, many years ago. Carved 2 sets of tone bars down to nothing. Too many variables. The biggest challenge was determining what the actual frequency of the fundamental...

Elderly used to carry them, its where I got mine.

Tap tuning is a waste of time? Yes well it is if you don't put an enormous amount of time and effort into doing the measurements so you have a database of measurements you can refer to, and read up...

After saying finding profile photos is difficult I thought I would submit one of my #66 which is getting close although I see things I'd change if I had it to do again. However this is a particularly...

I highly agree with John Hamlett on the futility of tap tuning. I have thumped on all my soundboards and recorded their overall pitch just for reference, after the mandolin or guitar was completed. I...

There are a few people who perceive benefit from 'tap tuning', but there are quite a few of us who consider it a waste of our time and either don't do it or gave up trying to do it. Personally, I...

Hi there, mandolin lovers. Many moons ago I wrote an ebook on how to set up a mandolin. Mandolins are finicky little beasts and very slight adjustments can make a very big difference. I've been...

By Tom Bachtell for a 2012 New Yorker article.

I think a glass of scotch would be more appropriate than the martini.
https://tombachtell.com/collections/portraits/products/chris-thile

also...

Here's my DIY go bar, I bought the fiberglass rods online, I got the all-thread rod, washers, & bolts at hardware store. I used plastic conduit for the rod sleeves. The wood panels were scrap that I...

Great story Sheila! I know the back story on your grandson, that he wanted to go back to learning guitar in his down time, how is that going?

I believe in letting children “feel” my musical...

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Meredith Coloma from Canada definately builds mandos.
Erin Patterson from the USA (might have switched to just guitars now).
Sandi Harris from the UK builds baroque mandolins.

Cafe member Jo Duseppo: https://www.dusepo.co.uk/Instruments

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Check out Rosa String Workshop on youtube. He has done many videos of setting up various mandolins.

J. Condino has a Fret and Setup workshop. Check out his website: https://condino.com/mandolins

Here's a few from olden days from my collection to go along with that wonderful modern banner:

Congratulations and thank you to Scott and everyone at the Mandolin Café who had a hand in honoring women mandolinists during Women's History Month! :mandosmiley: The banner looks absolutely...

I got myself a Calhoun in December from Northfield and couldn’t be happier with it. I wondered about the set-up question but figured if they build the darn thing they must know how to set it up. ...

Here's a medieval citole which I built for a customer here in the UK:

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And here's a sound and video sample I did before it was shipped out:

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