Tuning up

- Okay, we're gonna talk about tuning the mandolin now…and somebody once said that if you play the mandolin…for 30 years, you tune it for 15…and you play out of tune for 15…but it's true, it takes a lot to tune…a mandolin and get it really right.…As I said earlier there's two notes for every one.…So you have two E strings, two A strings,…two D strings, and two G strings.…So it's tuned exactly the same as a violin…but it's twice as hard to tune because of all these pairs.…

There's several ways to go about tuning…and I'm just gonna march you through them, each of them,…because they each have their pluses and minuses.…Of course a lot of us are using electronic tuners these days…and I'm also want of those fellas.…Got my little D Addario tuner here, I like it a lot.…It keeps everything at four 40…and you always know that you're getting a four 40 pitch…of off that but they're not perfect, you know,…and I think that there's a real danger these days…of people tuning with their eyes…rather than with their ears.…

When I think back of the old days of how in-tune…