It seems like there's a conflict in mandolin design between having enough frets to play the music you want and and being able to pick the strings in...
I had a set of Pegheds on a 5 string cello I had made about 10 years ago, and I now have a set of Witttner geared pegs on a plain gut strung Baroque...
That's great. I could fit my Cumberland bridge myself, but I'm not that far away from TAMCo in Brighton UK. Their tech works on the handmade US made...
Sure - but I've used them and found the marketing claims for these strings to stand up well enough in practice. I was always popping the .009 octave...
That's all true, but the strings I'm talking about different.They're higher carbon than regular strings, which makes them tougher. I've used them on...
My travel mandolin (and the first mandolin I had) is a Skyesound 'Wee Traveller' (made on the Isle of Skye, Scotland from reclaimed furniture wood)....
So, I'm about two months into 'I play fiddle so let's do mandolin'. Areas like improving sound, string crossing, cleaner picking, slowly building up...
So, are you suggesting vibration doesn't travel through a bridge to the instrument top Adrian? I'm just asking 'cos I don't know. I do know that good...
Although the modern chromatic nyckelharpa dates from 1920s, there are stone carvings of simple diatonic nyckelharpas from something like 1350, and of...
2 x Fiddles, 1 x 5 string viola, 1 x 5 string octave viola, 2 X nyckelharpas
2 X 12 string guitars, 3 x 6 string guitars, 1 x Cuatro de Puerto Rico
5 x recorders - descant, alto, tenor
1 X Highland bagpipes
1 x Garvie 'Session' pipes
Which is why I won't be upgrading the mandolin anytime soon.
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