That's all the compensation there is – one inch? It looks like so much more.
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That's all the compensation there is – one inch? It looks like so much more.
I had taken a break from the five course and have recently come back to it. I have two projects I am now working on:
One: I have resumed learning how to read alto clef. I would like to be a strong mandola player to make myself more versatile for mandolin orchestra play.
Secondly: I am working on being able to find my melodies an octave below where I know them. I want to be able to do this quickly, or at least more quickly than I can now.
Once I am capable of being useful on mandola at jams and orchestra I it might make sense to get a nice mandola. The holy grail, IMO, being a Lyon & Healy model A asymmetrical two pointer, to match the mandolin I have. That would be the bees knees.
I had a mandola once, and eventually I was either playing capo 2 a course down to come in an octave below the fiddle, or bringing two instruments to every jam (and mostly playing mandolin). I finally let it go. The five course is the real solution to that. But MAS being what it is, I will probably get a mandola at some point.
Maybe time to measure again... some discrepancy here? "Measure twice, cut once." You first talk about a 2" range and you took the shorter scale down and inch and the larger one down two inches. Or did you replace the original instrument with a different one. Or am I crazy?
B to Gb might not be a 5th, but Cb to Gb sure is.