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   Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 06:57:08 JST Hrefna (DHC)

   ugh. I need to replace the strings on my mandolin as well.

   If anything I hate that worse than swapping them out on the classical guitar.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:04:52 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     Screwing around on my mandolin again is _definitely_ making me want to get a tenor guitar and put an Irish violin tuning on it (G2, D3, A3, E4).

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     Denis Buckley (wellingtonrock@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:31:43 JST Denis Buckley

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     @hrefna
     I recently bought an Octave Mandolin. (I didn't want to have to learn to read another instrument.) The voice is wonderful, and there's plenty of scope to play vibrant stuff on the lower strings on bluegrass stuff. But it's much further from E to B on the top string, and much harder to play fast passages there (think, Blackberry Blossom). Also, you need to rethink 'chop chords' unless your hands are lots bigger than mine.

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     Hrefna (DHC) (hrefna@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 07-Nov-2024 08:31:43 JST Hrefna (DHC)

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     • Denis Buckley

     @wellingtonrock My hands are quite large as it is (when I was in practice I was an octave plus like two semitones on a keyboard). I've been focusing on a classical guitar for a few years now, which has a nice wide fretboard (like 52mm) and a 650mm scale length.

     Which is actually one of my problems on my standard mandolin: it is very fast, but feels cramped to work with if I fall out of practice. So I'm okay with with the tradeoffs there (I've also been eyeing an octave mando, MAS is a thing).