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Old 09-20-2021, 08:23 PM
Wade Hampton Wade Hampton is offline
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Originally Posted by Rudy4 View Post
I have a pretty nice carved top F hole mandolin, spruce top and figured maple back / sides that I made and have been playing for something like 20 years.

It's the only instrument that I have that reliably shifts pitch upward when it is set aside in its bag for a month or two.

I attribute it to the carved solid spruce top. ….
For what it’s worth, the mandolin I experienced this with today is a National resonator mandolin, so it doesn’t have a spruce top, carved or otherwise.


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