I have a nice Trinity College Octave Mandolin, but I rarely play it. It just doesn't "talk" to me, if you know what I mean. I mainly play Irish tunes, both at home and at sessions, using regular mandolin and tenor banjo. I'm a halfway decent amateur on both of those. I do switch off with whistle too.
I find the Octave Mandolin sound too muddy for playing melody, but I don't want to just strum chords, so I was thinking of removing one string from each pair and playing it like a tenor guitar, which is an instrument I've been thinking of getting anyway.
Has anyone done this? Like the results?
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