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- From: sjwyrick@csa3.lbl.gov (Steve Wyrick)
- Newsgroups: alt.guitar
- Subject: Re: Mandolin
- Message-ID: <28587@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 20:28:12 GMT
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- Subject: Mandolin
- From: Alden Arzaga, broohaha@camelot.bradley.edu
- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:39:54 GMT
- In article <broohaha.727727994@camelot> Alden Arzaga,
- broohaha@camelot.bradley.edu writes:
- >
- >Does anyone out there know the tuning of a mandolin?
- >
- >4ths? 5ths? If you know the notes and appropriate strings, I would
- >be most grateful.
-
- Tune it like a violin (5ths). from lowest, GDAE (string pairs in
- unison). The G is the same octave as an open G on the guitar, I believe.
- BTW, studio musician par excellence Tommy Tedesco used to keep 2
- mandolins for studio work, one tuned like the bottom 4 strings of the
- guitar (EADG) and one like the top 4 (DGBE). This way, although he
- couldn't actually read music on the mandolin, he could play guitar
- fingerings and between the 2 instruments could obtain the same range as a
- "real" mandolinist. He said it worked fine most of the time as long as
- the music wasn't too complex.
-