Myself & several other mandolin players whom i'm in touch with on here, have noticed that when cold or warm,mandolins do sound quite different. My own - when cold,sound tight,thin toned & also go 'sharp'. When warm,they usually go 'flat',but their tone becomes much more full bodied & the sound becomes much more 'open'.
Whether a person notices the 'opening up' of their mandolins when it's in a cool or warm envirionment would maybe give us a clue.
I know of 2 cafe members who don't post on here regularly any more,both of whom were once Weber "Fern" owners,who posted that they'd experienced a very noticeable change in tone (for the better) in their mandolins. Both were in a warm,domestic environment & their instruments suddenly sounded ''full on 'open' ''. I'd noticed exactly the same thing with my own Weber "Fern".
After i'd been playing it in a warm living room for an hour or so,the overall 'sound' changed quite dramatically. I would never attribute this to the ''opening up'' scenario,but hellfire !! - it did 'open up',
Ivan
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