Re: Mandolins with no tone bars / bracing?
My uncle recently retrofitted tonebars to a collegues's pacrim mandolin. How (not to mention why bother) he managed to get such a fit them and attach them through the F holes mystifies both my Dad and myself. All reports from the folk at the local mandolin orchestra is that the tonebars made a vast improvement. Nobody could really believe how much more life the laminated object had. Of course it still couldn't hold its own against a handcarved mandolin, but the difference in before and after tonebars was substantial.
Hereby & forthwith, any instrument with an odd number of strings shall be considered broken. With regard to mix levels, usually the best approach is treating the mandolin the same as a cowbell.
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