hii again, 1ox for ur reply and recommendation for tuning. I will ask the stores around if they have strings. Tell me plz. did i sound like a guy? :(

To the guy having trouble keeping it in tune; my recommendation would be to change the strings. Also check the screws on the back of the tuners and make sure they are tight

hi everybody. Try and google 'The Mandolin Tools', it's a windows application that has this kind of tuner, plus chorts and scales and metronome and all and its freeware. Its better than this.

hii, ur site is certainly helpful. got my first mandoline and knew nothing about it. tell me, do i have to tune my mandoline every single time? I have tuned it nine or 10 so far. And still i find it out of tune everytime i refer to this page. sometimes it gets out of tune after 10 minutes of tuning it too! is this normal? anything wrong with my mandoline? i can see the silk wire has detached a little bit from the chord near the tuner keys, does it mean they need to be changed? 1ox a lot

Found my dad's old mandolin. Bought new set of strings but he'd forgotten what key the strings were. You guys are a lifesaver. :D

Thank you!! This was very helpful!!

Thanks a lot! only tuners I could find were for guitar

Works for me, in a pinch its a cinche, if ya got BETTER way and your voicing it, the why are you here if you have a better way ? The cynical beast in me speaks out... thanks for being here got me through a bridge malfunction-do or die moment! Cheers!

A mandolin is a violin. Except on its side and double stringed. But my eleectric tuner broke and I was searching everywhere for a piano simulation to tune this thing, turns out there's an easier way. :)

Compliments on a superb website. am an ageing wannabee muso who has acquired a lot of old instruments over the years, its nice to hear them all in tune for the first time!
Cheers.I

Suppose you could think of a mandolin as an upside down guitar... e.g. a G chord on mandolin is 3rd fret E string and 2nd fret A string on both instruments.

Thank you this is very helpful. It seems to me that any one can figure this out.

it WOULDN"T work well , i meant

MJ, it would work well because the strings are the right gauges. The E string would be ok, but the others would be too loose.

I would say don't tune it like your guitar and go to youtube and watch people play - that's how I learned. If you tune it like a guitar then it will be different than any other Mandolin ever - no real point in that, ya know?