Re: Very high notes on a budget instrument
Most inexpensive mandolins start to give up as you go past the 12th fret.
My decent but lesser mandolin starts to get really plinky at 12th fret, and then starts to fail to give any sort of useful tone as it goes up. .
My Northfield Artist Series mandolin gets full beautiful resonant notes all the way up to the highest fret.
It is as loud and full at the top as it is at the bottom.
It is quite remarkable how different the two mandolins are at the top end.
I think you need a better mandolin to get up there and have a functioning tone.
Mandolins: Northfield 5-Bar Artist Model "Old Dog", J Bovier F5 Special, Gibson A-00 (1940)
Fiddles: 1920s Strad copy, 1930s Strad copy, Liu Xi T20, Liu Xi T19+ Dark.
Guitars: Taylor 514c (1995), Gibson Southern Jumbo (1940s), Gibson L-48 (1940s), Les Paul Custom (1978), Fender Strat (Black/RWFB) (1984), Fender Strat (Candy Apple Red/MFB) (1985).
Sitars: Hiren Roy KP (1980s), Naskar (1970s), Naskar (1960s).
Misc: 8 Course Lute (L.K.Brown)
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