Has anyone here had success tuning a mandolin, standard 14"/36cms~ scale, down to mandola tuning?
I was messing around on the McDonald's String tension calculator and it looks like the D'addario EFT76 set on a standard scale mandolin tuned down to CGDA would be pretty comparable in tension to a light set of GDAE tuned J72 strings.
I guess that the scale length might not be the limiting factor, but I'm assuming that low C might not sound so hot in a small mandolin body chamber.
Has anyone played around with this?
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