Hello all,
greetings from Australia.
this is my first time in this forum, so I hope this question doesn't seem too foolish.
I have ordered a mandola ( the thing one size up from a mandolin) from china custom made because I wanted a slighltly wider neck.
I already have a tenor ukulele which has been re-strung as per the higher four strings of a guitar, (D G B E,).
I'd like, for simplicity to have the mandola strung similarly so that I don't have to remember three different sets of finger positions and chord shapes.
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The mandola will come from the factory tuned CGDA (all strings a fifth lower than a standard mandolin.)
The C string(s) could be tuned up two semitones, I guess, without snapping them. The G string would remain as is.
The D string(s) could be moved one space closer to the floor and wound up two semitones. This leaves us with D G (space) E.
We are then missing a B string.
A mandola is 7 guitar frets shorter than a classical guitar, so an either a D or an E string off a guitar should tune easily to a B taking account of the shorter neck length.
(I don't know however which ovctave is needed.)
Does all of this sound right (do-able) to you guys?
Does anyone have expereince at doing something similar.
I'll get a guitar shop to assist me when the mandola arrives,
but is there generally a problem to wind a course up by two semitones?
Hope some of you can help, please.
~ Richard.
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