Re: "tinny" A string?
I'll throw an additional possibility on this twangy, buzzy, tinny A-string. That is how you are fretting and/or pehaps the state of the callouses on your finger tips.
I have osteoarthritis and it is worse in the worst place too -- the first phalanges joint. This means I've had to come up with a new ways to get my finger tips into position on the fret board in order to make the notes. So every now and then I will start hearing a most annoying high pitched buzz or rattle coming whenever I press a fret on the A-course -- it is consistently worse on some frets.
I have concluded that in my case it is NOT the mandolin because I can switch another mandolin and get the same thing happening -- it's me, or my hands. The A-string just seems to be in a position that is hard for me to place a finger tip some days.
I imagine this could happen to others? For me the problem is mostly confined to the A-course. Never have this happen on octave mandolin or even mandola that I can recall?
Bernie
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