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On Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:33:56 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> I tried an octave mandolin once.  It was frustrating - a lot of the
> stretches become too far to reach.  You'd need different fingerings;
> I suppose it's similar to violin vs. cello.  (I also play viola - my
> fingers are long enough that I can manage most of the violin
> stretches.)

Funny, I had the opposite problem - tried to play a friend's mandolin
once and it absolutely boggled my mind how close the upper frets were.
Could hardly line my fingers up behind one without rolling over to the
next, and I'm not at all sausage-fingered; maybe there's a trick to it,
but I couldn't see how a grown adult was supposed to play the thing...