Re: Mandolin neck
Originally Posted by
CGMan
Why is a mandolin neck so narrow? I don't see how a wider neck would affect the sound
A narrow neck makes it possible to fret two courses with one fingertip, and I find myself doing that more and more. Sometimes I can't fret all four strings, but I can usually get three of them, and I can ALWAYS get the middle two. If the neck were wider this would impossible, and would require using two fingers on the same fret on adjacent strings, which isn't practical unless the neck was REALLY wide.
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