My den is about 12x14 with and eight foot ceiling. I have a mandolin that sounds kind of "thuddy" (that's a technical term) when I play. The other day I took the mandolin to a luthier for a set up to solve this problem. She did describe the set up as "unusual" but she did not elaborate.
Her shop is about 40' x 50' with a 14' ceiling (a very old elegant building). In that room the mandolin sounds awesome. Still in need of set up but a dramatic improvement just by getting it into a bigger space.
So, my thought is that the different room acoustics profoundly impact the perception of intonation.
Experiences or thoughts on this?
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