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    Re: Hora Octave Mandolas

    Forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by fretting cleanly? Is that the same as chording? And what are the tuners? The keys that wind the strings?
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    Re: 10" body on octave mandola?

    Thanks! Would the heavier strings be harder to hold down when chording? Or maybe easier, because the thin ones might cut more into the fingers?
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    Hora Octave Mandolas

    Has anyone played an octave mandola/mandolin by Hora of Romania? I see them advertised for as low as $195. Are they as cheaply made as the price suggests? Their scale is 22", which I hear can be...
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    Re: 10" body on octave mandola?

    It was my understanding that octave mandolas and octave mandolins are the same instrument. But it would be tuned G-D-A-E. The luthier doesn't give the dimensions, other than the body width and the...
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    10" body on octave mandola?

    Hi, I'm new to this genre, a very amateur musician--played guitar and hammered dulcimer many years ago. I want to buy an eight-string teardrop octave mandola, 20" scale (for Renaissance and Celtic...
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