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    Default String recommendations

    I would like for players to recommend string brands and gauges for two 1938 Eupophone instruments: a mandolin and a mandola. I hardly play mandolin so do not have a particular style of playing in mind. I just want the notes to ring out 5-5.
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    Question Re: String recommendations

    probably lighter: 10 ~ 36 G&D wound with bronze I'm brand neutral..

    fingerboard planed level/flat, no humps with age? ? frets in good shape ?


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    Default Re: String recommendations

    I'm stuck on Elixir nano web, medium gauge. They last a really long time

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