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Cheap no good good no cheap has never been more apt in the stringed instrument world as with mandolin in my experience
We decided to save for the Moon at the end ( phew GAS fund still intact!)
I bought a good one secondhand (a Stonebridge/Furch) and it's MUCH easier to play and sounds way less tinny, although I think the guy I bought it from paid about a grand new for it
I tried the fender pack but the quality was not very good at all. I just did a NMD post
I have tipped around on one for years, a fender semi acoustic (similar to the Bob Schmidt sig), that I've sold on since.
There's a few Tanglewood ones with wider necks at the nut which felt more comfortable to play. Not sure if I'll get back into the mandolin again, but if I were, I'd consider an octave mandolin or something with a wider neck for sure.
I was kind of a 50/50 strummer, tune player. I wouldn't have called myself a "mandolin player".
I agree with previous posters on the difference between cheap and not so cheap. Saying that, I played a roundhole, oval body Tanglewood in a shop a while back and the neck was lovely. Wide enough. It was around £200 or so.
The Pono octave mandos look and sound great, based on the videos, but aren't cheap.
If you have large hands you might like playing the slightly larger instrument.
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Sadly I seem to be developing an issue with my left hand, not sure what it is, but it feels kinda fuzzy and I seem to have lost the fine motor skills needed to play stringed instruments, so the fylde may be for sale at some point.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Great fun, the 5 string banjo patch is fun too
I made some very strange tunings, I really liked this one for atmospheric ECM sounds, like Metheny I think
AEAAAD
A (-7); E (-5); A (-5); A (+2); A (-2); D (-2)