2010年10月16日 · In Europe, however, mandola refers to what we in North America call an octave mandolin and they read treble clef except the music is actually in the same key. Yikes!! My current problem is that I can read pretty decently on mandolin but have to relearn to read the c-clef on mandola but still maintain my brain for reading mandolin.

2015年12月8日 · The mandola and mandolin share three courses: G, D, and A. But the mandolin has a high E course, while the mandola has a low C course. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I like the mandolin for playing in the keys of D and A, while I think the mandola is better suited to the keys of C and G.

2023年8月21日 · I'm working on restoring an old German bowlback mandola from the 1930's, scale length 420mm (16.5 inches) to be tuned CGDA. I'm more used to dealing with mandolins, so all the string gauges mentioned here (and available as string sets) seem remarkably heavy - giving tensions around 25lbs per string.

2025年3月18日 · I play an old Gibson H0 mandola (1907 or thereabouts) with a 15 7/8 inch scale, and use a custom Newtone string set of .0135, .020 (wound), .032, and .048. I've experimented with different string weights, but this set is the best so far.

5 天之前 · Great sounding and playing Mandola in excellent condition. Manufactured in Korea, this F Style Mandola features a hand carved spruce top, hand-carved maple back and sides, radiussed rosewood fingerboard and adjustable bridge, pearloid fret markers, bound body and headstock, 1-1/4" nut and 16-1/4" scale. MK hard case is included.

2025年1月8日 · CGDA mandola is in the wrong key for this music (practical advice based on personal experience). CGDA mandocello (open or capo-2, capo-7) works as an octave mandolin and as well as Natalie Haas' CGDA cello for playing Irish-type tunes.

2022年4月1日 · Mandola shares some of the same sonic space as guitar, but IMHO compliments the guitar nicely, and can do both melody and chords. Neither is tuned like a 5 string banjo, so the zouk might be easier to adapt to and while it doesn't have a drone string it is generally arranged to provide some "drone" effect.

2015年1月11日 · Thomastik-Infeld Octave Mandolin (European Mandola) Flat Wound 45 cm Mittel, .015 - .049, 174M Thomastik-Infeld Octave Mandolin (European Mandola) Flat Wound 45 cm Stark, .020 - .063, 174S But these strings are kind of expensive for such an experiment... Seems like a string tension calculator is your best bet, and then mix and match some string ...

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2008年7月8日 · Some people think "tenor mandola" is CGDA, because it's like the tenor banjo or tenor guitar, others use "tenor mandola" for GDAE and "alto mandola" for CGDA. My own inclination is to say "CGDA" or "GDAE" where that's not too much of a mouthful, and otherwise "octave mandola" and "alto mandola", these being the only non-ambiguous terms. Martin