From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs
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Adjusting your action
From the course: Mandolin Lessons: 2 Soloing Ideas & Kickoffs
Adjusting your action
- Hello. I'd like to talk a little bit about setup. And, particularly, adjusting your action on your mandolin. And that's something that some people are afraid of. And if you are, I would, of course, recommend that you go to your local luthier or a good acoustic music shop, and have them do it for you. But, I do it myself. In terms of raising and lowering the bridge. It changes a lot as I travel around the world. For instance, I was just in Colorado, and it's a very dry climate there. Whenever I go to a dry place, it seems like the action goes down. I guess the water. The moisture inside the wood goes away 'cause of the dry climate. And that makes everything sink. And the bridge goes down, and the strings start buzzing on the fingerboard because of that. When I go to a place like Colorado I'll have to raise the bridge up just a little bit. I'm gonna attempt to demonstrate for you how I do that. After years and years of playing this thing, I've developed a little system. What I do is I…
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