I'm not saying that you shouldn't avoid an instrument that sounds awful straight out of the gate, but for getting the feet wet, I wouldn't put too much thought into getting great "authentic acoustic bluegrass tone". Most of the inherent tonal considerations aren't going to be as big a deal inititially as are tuning stability and intonation, and playability. You don't have to spend $500 to get a decent mandolin, but if you spend that much on a Kentucky or an Eastman A model, you will have a fine mandolin.Ĭlick to expand.Carry a little basic chord and scale book with you, play a bunch of el-cheapo mandolins, spend as little as you can initially, and choose something that plays and intonates well. Bluegrass players like F holes almost exclusively, and most play F styles, but it is probably because that's what Bill Monroe played. Blues players like oval holes, but there are exceptions. The type of music you want to play will probably figure in to your choice of instrument. Oval hole mandolins have a hollower, kind of tubby sound, f hole mandolins are generally louder and project more. You can get a lot more mandolin for your money with an A style because building the scroll and points adds prominently to the cost of the F style. Try one if you can, you might like it.įirst piece of advice : lurk at The Mandolin Cafe and do some searches on Kentucky, Eastman, The Loar and J Bovier mandolins. The OM is kind of 12-string sounding so except for the timbre of the sound, it is kind of guitar-like. You don't have to spend $500 to get a decent mandolin, but if you spend that much on a Kentucky or an Eastman A model, you will have a fine mandolin.Īs regards octave mandolin - you will be in the guitar's register, musically speaking, so the notes will sound familiar.
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