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Thank you for all the answers, it's much more clear now.



That sounds worrying. What's the point of having the case then if I always have to keep an eye on it and make sure nobody puts anything...

Yes, but Pono has more shallow body and shorter scale length. I can't say I really like the sound though.
I'd probably expect more bouzouki / Andy Irwine sound from longer scale and deeper body of...

I used to use standard D'Addario J74 for my Gibson tenor lute (which is long scale mandola, 21''). I felt that tension is a bit too high for an old instrument though, so I've ordered a set of custom...

Congrats, I agree that price is quite good, so, yes, you did great. I thought of bidding for a moment, but I don't like instruments lying around and not being played and I already have one lute :)

I have one, converted it to double strings. It's the same neck, but I felt that single strings are not giving it enough power. I read that some of these were made with 8 strings, and I think this is...

Allen, the internal dimensions of the banjola bag are 37'' x 13'' which is a bit too big (i need more like 34'' x 11''), but so far it looks like the closest I can get :-(

There're a builder in the Netherlands who builds mandolin in the violin style - https://www.facebook.com/moustacheguitars/

The ones I would like to sound like are

Cahalen Morrison & Eli West:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky06lp2tXJU

Eamon O'Leary & Jefferson Hamer aka Murphy Beds:

I'll try to generalize a bit:

Octave mandolin, instrument designed to be tuned GDAE (octave lower than mandolin), scale length 20-22''
Mandola (Tenor mandola), instrument designed to be tuned...

Hi,

not really, I was not specific enough. What I mean is an instrument which was made by Gibson around 1924-1925 but didn't receive a lot of popularity - it's mandola body with tenor banjo neck -...

As far as I know yours is also 4-string? Have you tried 8-string version? in theory it should be louder. I can't see why those lutes should be more quiet then mandolas (but never played one)

Ok I got it, my confusion came from not enough knowledge, now I see that standard mandola strings are thicker than tenor guitar ones, that's why scale length difference

Thanks you guys, always...

Fox,

thanks, I've just realized there's a nice way to put 5 banjo style tuners on a guitar head :)

Just found this video yesterday - couple of jigs on octave mandolin. As I play a lot of irish, I should say that John is really good on ornamentation on OM, so nice tutorial as well :)

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http://www.facebook.com/SierraHullMusic/videos/10153992549597942

Not sure about model, some old Gibson?
Looks like standard CGDA tenor tuning

Great trio, all the members are quite famous musicians on ITM scene, they have awesome sound together. Some backup on tenor guitar here, so see no reason not to post it here

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Probably this one was already asked a lot, but I still haven't found something useful for me (although this could be related to my skills or searching)

I'm interested of learning some of the Andy...

Ivan - there's a video on the Lakota Leather site about how to attach their straps to A style mandolin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2RuVq01jis