Hi
I have a entry level Octave Mandolin from Hora that has irish Bouzouki strings on it (so i'm told).
This is standard here (in ireland).
GDAE
Anyway one of my A strings is constantly going out of tune, always trending sharp.
The other A string goes sharp too, but not as much or as often as the other.
Im thinking the problem string doesn't have enough wraps around the tuning peg, i can count 2 full wraps.
Start there?
I'm a newbie and i tune strings using an App on my phone and use the Chromatic setting within the App.
It would be neat to tune using my ears and a guide note, but tbh, i can't quite get the sound waves to totally align when doing that.
Does anybody know of a method of training one's ears to do this?
Also even when i get all my strings in tune according to the App, many of the notes are a bit off on the finger board.
For example: 2nd fret on A string is a B, but this B is always sharp, even when my open A string is reading 220hz.
It sounds a bit off to my ears when i land on that B, and the Chromatic setting of the App confirm it's sharp.
To remedy i've been trying to tune my E string using the App, and then tune all the other strings to match that E by placing my fingers on the fretboard to the nearest E.
This usually pretty good, but infact i'm turning each string G,D,A a bit flat to accomplish this,.
For example my A string is tuned to 219hz and sometimes a bit lower in order to have a good E while on the 2nd fret.
Is this normal or does this suggest something is not right with my instrument?
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