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Originally Posted by Martian
or mandolin
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Bad news: mandolins are tuned in fifths like violins.
Incidentally, I wouldn't be surprised if "fiddling" and "playing violin" are as different in tuning as they are in most every other way.
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Originally Posted by allaboutmusic
I'm already too used to my scale shapes now!
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Oh god, totally. I've been a full-time bassist in a band for the last nine months or so, and going over to a fifths-tuned instrument would be agonizing. It's bad enough when my songwriter decides to transpose songs on the fly and yells her capo position to me as the drummer is counting us in....