Hi
I have a Rozini RB22AT-LP Brazilian Mandolin (Bandolim).
I've had it for about two years, sometimes playing more, sometimes less.
One of the main reasons for this is the fact that the A-strings almost always go out of tune very quickly.
This is quite weird, since the other strings are a lot more stable.
Another weird thing - the strings don't only go flat, but actually sometimes go sharp.
This seems to be more extreme in Air-conditioned rooms (sometimes to the point that the string goes out of tune after less than one minute!)
I would suspect the wood (since this is a quite standard assembly-line instrument, not exactly made by hand by a luthier), but this doesn't explain why the other strings stay in tune much longer.
I've tried 4 different makes of strings, but this happens with all of them. I've played around with the tuning machines to make them tighter, but this didn't help either.
Any help or suggestion on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated - I would really love to play the mandolin more, but this is really quite annoying, and I don't think I can afford to buy a better one at the moment.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
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