A friend of mine just bought a 12-string guitar and it gave me the idea of creating an "eight-string" mandolin. The idea is to tune the two G strings and the two D strings one octave apart, and leave the A and E tuned in the same octave. Since I don't currently have a spare mandolin to try this on, I thought I'd float it on the board. Has anyone tried this? If so, how did it sound and play?
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