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seaandbells Approved 
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hey everyone, just got my beautiful mandolin for my 21st i used to play a friends but apart from standard i dont know to much about alternate tunings. i play 12 string guitar and i use all sorts of tunings with that but im worried if i try tuning my mandolin to open g or something itll damage it or the strings will snap which i dont really want to happen since im very poor at the moment and cant afford any new ones tilli get paid.....what are your suggestions? perhaps im being a little to precious with it being so new hehe x rob p.s. hope everyone had a great christmas and new year
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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seaandbells- Welcome to ezFolk! You'll find lots of good advise and music here. Nice to find a mandolin player, too, we can use a few! I don't play mandolin (it's on my list), but I don't think you will find many tunes that use alternate tunings on mando. Most Mando players learn to play in different keys out of the standard Mando tuning (GDAE), and I haven't heard of any that even use a capo. Don't know if this is what you wanted to hear, but it is my entire store of knowledge on the instrument. Brad
____________________ ezFolk Help Brad Prickly Pear Music Banjo Brad's ezFolk page TOTMC |
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seaandbells Approved
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hey there, thanks ever so much for the advice thats no problem at all im getting used to the standard tuning its no problem just wondered thats all. Ill stick to standard for now cant wait to start recording rekon itll sound lovely with my 12 string and banjo. thanks again for the advice . rob
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gerry mcgandy Approved 
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Hi Seaandbells I've been learning the mandolin for nearly 20 years. Never came across anybody who tuned it other than EADG. Asked my brother Barry who used to make them. He reckons you could tune it like a mandola EADC, but you'ld need to change strings for that. He also reckoned DEAD would give you open D, but I'm uncertain if your present strings would stand for that either. Looking forward to hearing it.
____________________ Gerry McGandy http://mp3mart.net http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/556/ |
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banjo brad Super Moderator
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Ah, Gerry - do we agree to disagree? I notice that you give the tuning for the Mandolin backwards from what I gave it (fiddle tuning). Do you name from high to low? I've always thought of strings from the one nearest me to the one furthest away. Thus, is my GDAE the same tuning as your EADG? Is this something that the far-side-o-the-pond normally do?   (We haven't had a decent arguement here in awhile  Brad
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Charlie Approved 
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Hey Gerry, I notice the same as Brad did, I always refer to mandolin tuning as GDae, but I almost knew what you were meaning. Seaandbells, You will not have much luck tring to tune different on the mandolin, I have been learning for about 10 years on the mandolin and have tried all kind of things and it don't work, I even tried nylon strings one time and that was a no no. I have used a capo a few times maybe for Ab or Bb, but have just tried learning with out one, but my old fingers have wore out for the mandolin now. I love the mandolin and the sound of it and wish you all the luck with it and will look for some good music from you. Charlie
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gerry mcgandy Approved
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banjo brad wrote: Ah, Gerry - do we agree to disagree? Alas, no arguement this time Brad; same tuning, looked at upside down. This is the W/E hemispheric equivalent of the phenomenon whereby water spirals down a plughole clockwise in the North and widdershins South of the equator.
____________________ Gerry McGandy http://mp3mart.net http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/556/ |
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seaandbells Approved
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thankyou all for your help i really do appreciate it : ) i rekon im gonna stick with just standard tuning and perhaps use a capo from time to time.I go back home to where i live at the weekend so gonna start recording straight away so when its done i shall post a link if anyones interesting in having a listen. Again thanks alot guys for the help and advice x rob aka seaandbells
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seaandbells Approved
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oh i forgot to say, me and my friend decided to have some fun and made these songs check them out : ) http://www.myspace.com/123pirate
____________________ Rob |
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