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Old 12-29-2017, 08:05 PM
Rudy4 Rudy4 is offline
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Originally Posted by David MacNeill View Post
That sounds great! Is that two octaves down from standard mando tuning?
Nope, it's a bit of a different animal, tuned A-E-B-F#, a whole step up from standard octave mandolin.

Since it's in between the range of octave and mandola I just call it a "low tuned mandolin".

Here's the same basic instrument in a steel-strung version that gets a lot of good comments:

https://youtu.be/ydA7JgMHlQ4
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