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Much better now. I could maybe go a little narrower yet but I'm done with it. Maybe next a Mandola conversion (3/4 guitar).

but I've seen mandolas called 'octave mandolins', which to me would put them at GDAE.

While I've known for years the GDAE tuning for mandolin and (more recently) CGDA (octave and a fifth) for mandocello, I've heard mention in videos of GDAE (octave) for mandola. However, when I shop...

After playing with it for a week then jamming over the weekend, I decided I will go back and narrow the neck, it's too wide for comfortable playing.

If I end up having some bridge buzz problems, I might have to hold the tailpiece down somehow. There's hardly any string slope down from the bridge.

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I made the initial post from work and so wanted to get it done as quick as possible, thus the flikr link.

But I didn't know what I wanted (other than wound nylon) til I tried. JustStrings.com has what I'll want to use next time in their singles. I'll give him a look, though.

Not as bright sounding as steel but it has a nice bass growl on the low C. Sometime I'll replace that plain nylon .032 with a wound .020. I started by getting a D'Addario Classic guitar set plus some...

I've been thinking about doing this for maybe a year now but only started in the last 2-4 months. Started with a Japanese-made Orlando classical I got in a pile of junked guitars, most of which had...

Starting from a guitar for conversion, my most important string concern is the actual length so I know whether I can use the strings as is, add extensions (between the bridge and tailpiece) or find...

But my question is "how much more?" I'm doing a conversion on a guitar but using a tailpiece instead of a regular style bridge (needing more string length).
I just sent them this same question.

Can anyone tell me the full actual (not scale) length of the D'Addario J78 (or any other brand) mandocello strings? None of the places that sell them I've asked (so far) have been able to tell me yet.

no responses here but I did get some on that video.

One brother and I started over 30 years ago on a bari uke tuned DGBE then moved up, me to guitar and him to bass. Now he hardly touches the bass but plays 3-4 different guitars, bouzouki and a little...

Also not a movie, Paul McCartney's Dance Tonight video features an A style with all sorts of cables and other doodads pasted onto it. It didn't take me long to figure out the chords for it and that...

On mine, I wove a piece of boot lace between the strings then tucked (hid) it under the scallop of the tailpiece to damp the strings downhill of the bridge. I also have a small scrap of suede that I...

I intended to put this in Miscellaneous but that's closed to new topics. :P

Looking at the guitar in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnXYB7yWKv8 what kind of tuners are those? I want to look at a...

I frequently use barre (really, with 2 'r's and an 'e'? I always thought it was just 'bar') chords. I find it nearly impossible to stretch that far to do the bluegrass chop chords, even when taking...

I'm not familiar with many of the manufacturers. Is there info somewhere on L&H? the forum search says the term is too short. :P

Maybe what I put in the bowlback pictures thread will do. If not, I can still start another identify thread....

Well, here we go then... Grandma said before she died that this mando was over 100 years old, though we could no longer question Grandpa about its history when he and his twin got it. As I was told,...

How distinctive are mandolin brands to identify them by their features (bowl staves, headstocks, etc)? I have an unlabeled one I inherited from my grandfather that looks very much like this. The bowl...

Besides the video, do you have pictures too?

I know I'm a little late on this...

Hey, my mattress is a little flat

How are your Mandochlorian levels?