Re: Bass to Mandolin
I bet it had more to do with what your ears were accustomed to hearing you make after a week on the bass rather than some structural change in the mandolin itself. Imagine if your first impression of a fine Ellis on first playing it after it came to you had been thin, trebly and unappealing. You might not have kept it (you've been through many instruments ).
I'm not entirely sold on the whole instrument wakes up phenomena vs, you get back in the grove as a player to work better with the instrument for optimal (for you) tone. I'll qualify this with, I'm not a very good player technically and my mandolin sounds amazing in competent hands. The one time I got to handle a Loar signed mandolin it sounded exactly like me playing. Later that afternoon when the REAL player was using it it sounded like one would expect.
Jamie
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