Anyone who has played outside the confines of their humidity controlled picking room knows that mandolins change a lot and sometime over a short period of time. I may be in high and dry Colorado one week and the next week pickin in a tent during a Kansas thunderstorm. I often adjust my set up and most good musicians know how to monkey with their instruments when they need monkeying with to keep the playing and sounding just right as conditions change. Even subtle changes often make big differences that are easy to hear. Bigger stuff like fret work or nut adjustment and maybe even truss adjustments need to be made by guys like Dave Harvey. Even if a shop does a pro set up on the way put the door doesn't mean it won't need tweaking fairly soon.
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