About six months or so I acquired a tenor guitar and 3 months ago started playing it on a regular (daily) basis. I believe since then my left hand skills on the mandolin have increased markedly.
You need to work all your digits on your fretting hand, all the time, on the tenor and you have to really stretch those fingers.
Of course the 6-string guitar also requires stretching (relative to the mando) as well but with the tenor the patterns are also the same.
I would imagine tenor guitar and banjo players find the mandolin a very easy instrument to become proficient on?
This is obviously not a profound insight but I think I got a lot more than I expected from the tenor guitar and tenor banjo as well!
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