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Originally Posted by DavidE
I have a nice handmade mandolin, but haven't spent time learning to play it. Yet. I'm an old dog (not dawg) and am afraid to try and learn some new tricks. Now if it was tuned like the top four on a guitar. lol... I guess then it wouldn't sound like a mandolin.
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Really, the mandolin tuning is better, more intuitive, more understandable, and easier mechanically and musically than the guitar tuning. I am convinced though, that to understand this and really take advantage of the mandolin, you have to become a mandolinist. You have to put aside the guitar and learn the mandolin as its own unique instrument with its own unique strengths and weaknesses. It isn't a tiny guitar. I spent almost two years principally as a mandolinist, and while I have since sold my mandolins and gone back to guitar, I really can play the mandolin as its on instrument and take advantage of what it offers as its own instrument.