Re: Recommend Mandola in CGDA strings?
Your 45cm scale look like an awkward 'in-between' scale length. My German mandola, designed to be played as an 'octave mandolin' GDAE in orchestras, is 48cm. Thanks to the large body volume it will take J72s without problem, although the plain E string needs to be beefed up - possibly with a wound pair. My English made (c1910) tenor mandola has a 38cm scale (which is pretty short for a mandola) and uses D-Addario TM strings for CGDA tuning. Vintage Gibsons and many modern TMs (such as Collings) tend to be around 41cm scale with Webers more like 43cm.
Yours is just 2cm longer than a Weber CGDA TM and 3cm shorter than my GDAE octave, so you are unlikely to find an easy fix in ready-made string sets and may need to go down the custom set path.
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