Hi,
I just got an old mandolin-banjo that I've been showing in that thread: http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/sh...mandolin-banjo in the hope that I might get some informations about it. My question here isn't exactly about repair, since the instrument is relatively playable, it's more about global improvement.
I have two issues:
– The length of the frets exceed the width of the neck, making sliding down or up the neck a quite harmful thing to do. Plus, they seem to be "square" on the top, not rounded, making every little slide rather unpleasant to the finger. What would be a simple, efficient and safe way to deal with this?
– The tone seems kind of muffled, more and more as I go up the neck, on all strings except on the string A that is not doubled because the other A was broken when I got it. The tone is remarkably better on this single A. Is this a coincidence, or should I remove every "second string?" in order to get a more direct and clear tone out of this instrument?
Thanks in advance,
Niavlys
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