My father went out to find me an electric guitar, came back with a mandolin and said “good enough”.. it’s hard to learn brain stew on mandolin but I’m getting there

This was a very helpful video. I've got some intonation problems on a new mandolin and this video should help me get it figured out. Great job Jonathan.

Finally guy, who show everything, what a lot od people want to know😁😉

Jonathan you have provided many good ideas for the mandolin player to get that best sound. I just did a neck reset to get my strings closer but still had to do the bridge. I really like how you showed in your video how to use paper under the bridge showing open space. Great idea as well as your explanation of the 1/2 divide intonation. Thank you

Hi Majik53, thanks for posting! Mandolins can always be improved. Changing some parts can help a lot too! Great to hear you got started playing mando. Cheers Jonathan

Well done sir ! Concise , helpful and understandable ⭐️👏👏🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼🎼

This was incredibly helpful

Many thanks Sir! I appreciate your clear and concise instructions.

Perfect explanation, thank you.

Thanks Jonathan, this really helped me set up my Mandolin

This is the best video I've actually seen on this topic, super helpful. Thank you! :)

Thank you, Jonathan, your video is very helpful and I now have it in my favourites. I put new strings on my mandolin and have tuned it, thanks to your advice. Best wishes to Mando Montreal :)

This was very helpful. You explained it so thoroughly, yet easy to understand and follow. Thanks man.

Excellent, thank you!

Hello from Nova Scotia, merci beaucoup for the video, I just bought my first mandolin and this was very helpful.

Thanks Jonathan, really good video. Take care.

Thank you so much!! Got an inexpensive mandolin for learning but there is definitely a need to set it up nicely. Thanks for sharing this knowledge!!

Thanks! Very helpful advises! 2 weeks ago I started to learn Mandoline. Greetings from Germany!

Thanks from New Zealand!

Thanks a lot for the instruction! Very informative.

I hope you are still on here. I found you 5 years later. I own three mandolins but I am mainly a guitar player, love the mandolin!

Thank you, Jonathan! That was a big help.

Thanks Johnathan, very informative.

Nice job on the video Jonathan.

I bought a brand new beginner mandolin and couldn’t figure out why the higher I played up the fretboard, sharper the notes seemed to run! Your video was extremely helpful and I have a much better understanding of my instrument! Thank you!

Remarkable !!! This video of you is a complete course about taking the best out of an instrument in itself !!! Thanks a lot !!!

Good explanation, thanks, very helpful. Brgds, Brian (Denmark)

Super helpful, thank you my man!

Your style of explaining was really useful, Thanks brother!

Thank you! Nice tips!!

Thankyou. This was super helpful and my mandolin sounds so much better and i feel so much wiser. cheers again.

Thanks man. I learned a lot.

You are a Gladiator !!!! Thanks !!!!

Merci beaucoup! So helpful and clear.

THANKS FOR SHARING VALUABLE INFORMATION

Moved the bridge back a little and now I'm in! Thanks!

Very instructive. Thank you for the time you've spent in making this video. It's very helpful for me.

thanks, great and informative video.

Merci pour l'astuce du montage des cordes, qui fait bien gagner du temps, et pour les instructions très claires sur le tuning , Thank you very much

Informative and entertaining thank you for explaining that stuff

That lightens it up a lot. Thank you..✌️

Some good tips. Thank you.

Thanx mate..Great playing!

I got a beautiful neapolitan mandolin from my wife's grandfather , with a bunch of new strings (from the sixties probably) ! But man, the set up did not went like planned ! It can really be a little nightmare ! This video will definitely help me to reach a satisfying set up (the best of its kind i've seen) ! Thanks!

Very helpful info for a long-time guitarist to tuning and setting intonation on a mandolin. Greatly appreciate your time to post this lesson. (Moving a bridge to get a well-tempered scale throughout the fret board is strange for a guitarist!)

Great advice, thank you very much 👍.

Thanks, this was both helpful and simple!

I've been playing mandolin--and changing my own strings--for about 20 years now, but after you hear what I'm about to say, you're gonna think, "You must not be too good!" LOL. (And I'm not.) Anyway, I've NEVER known exactly where the bridge is supposed to be positioned, but now I do thanks to you!! Thank you!

Thank you Jonathan! Excellent video extremely helpful. By the way I love your city of Montreal and of course Canada. Such wonderful neighbors to our north.Stay well, Dan from Los Angeles

Super explications mon chum...merci

perfecto! muchas gracias por el tutorial!

Oh boy, thank you thank you thank you! Been a real struggle to tune my newly acquired mandolin today. This has been a huge help.

Subbed, will be picking up a mandolin soon.

You have a gift my friend,I've learned a thing or four in this video,I will follow you,thanks.

Thank you for this useful video

Just got a rogue mandolin for $30 and am excited to start learning to play. But man it needs a setup first. Thanks for the video!

thanks very useful!

Thanks man!

Thanks a lot! It is very clear!

I tape sandpaper to the top of the mandolin in the area of where the bridge sits and then run the bridge back and forth to sand it to the shape of the mandolin top. Perfect fit every time. Violin makers do the same thing with violin bridge feet.

Thank you. Jonathan I learned a lot from this little video. Thanks.

Thanks that WAS helpful!

Thanks, very helpful, dodgy bridge was the problem here too

Thanks Johnathan thr bridge is hard to mess eith thanks for your knowledge bro 😎🇱🇷

thanx!!

Merci pour l’aider !

super clair, ma mandoline sonne A1. Merci pour le vidéo!

Merci beaucoup mon ami! .... very helpful.. A little scary sanding the bridge... but it makes sense what your saying. Thank you merci!!!

Great

Pas mal bonne cette vidéo, ça mérite un pouce en l'air.

MERCI!

Thank you

Hello from Arizona! I'm Austin Belanger! I am a noob to Mandolin and thank you for the information. My factory mandolin has been a bit off on the 7th fret and it is driving me nuts while trying to learn cords! :) Have a great one!

Excellent video...THANK YOU!!

Thank you. I thought that it would be pretty much like setting the intonation on my violin and it was/is so I was happy with your concise, no nonsense approach. Ten minutes to satisfy me that I was going to approach this task properly. Thanks again from Australia.

Thanks.

thank you

super

Hi there again. Did change the strings exactly as shown in the above video. Thanks. The looping is important in order that the string doesn't slip. Didn't take the looping seriously until I watched this video. ;). Well. The most significant outcome was the intonation. I didn't had to file or rub the bridge as it looked pretty well rested on the body. However, after loading all the strings and setting them in tune I realized that intonation could have been better. So loosened all the strings and played by moving the bridge very minutely to and fro to check the sound on open and 12th fret. And got satisfying sound at one instant. Then tuned all the 8 strings as needed to EADG and it really played well. Thanks to your step by step demo. Have a query though. I did read sometime back that there should be at least 3 turns of each string on each tuning post (the metal stub that holds the string) and all these should be placed as much lower as possible. This helps in avoiding the rattling. As of now, am not getting any rattling sound, but I think with still proper looping and the right slack, it is possible to achieve lowering down the turns on the stab. Any comments? Thanks again in advance. From Pune city, India

thanks dude

You do a good job explaining things can you explain the two that sound rods I guess the threaded portion of the bridge if it should be at an angle or be flat

Thank you , a great explanation , much appreciated.

Thank you! This video showed me I just suck! Lol all jokes aside thank you

I'm an intermediate guitar player, and just received an inexpensive mandolin for a xmas gift. It has some structural issues, one tuner is very loose, another very tight -- but it plays in tune most of the time, and the action is a little high, but passable. I checked the level of the fretboard with a good steel ruler, and its not bowed or arched out of line. I know of a luthier supply store online that has those kind of parts, I'll replace the tuners and maybe the bridge for better quality ones when I can afford to. I love this instrument! (I'm driving my roommate batty with all the practicing, hehehe) The rosewood bridge is too high, but the nut seems to be the correct height. Thank you for your bridge sanding techniques and tips! I'll be able to limp it along until I can upgrade it a little later in the new year. Subbed and shared!

Thanks . Maybe you could show us more tips and chords

Thank you for the help through your tutorial. My a & e string are just one increment Sharp on my tuner. Which direction should I move the bridge, or is that acceptable?

Bonjour, Si vous etes a Montréal, Québec, je souhaite vous rencontrer pour ajuster ma mandoline. Très belle video. Merci

Very informative how to setup a mandolin. Thanks for sharing. I just bought a cheaper mandolin because I'm not sure if I can play & like it. I played ukelele on my younger age & still playing it. I shifted to guitar when I was a teenager. I'm learning a little bit of setting up the guitar. Jonathan do you think I will learn how to play the mandolin?

Great video Jonathan , I was wondering if you have any tips on tuning and taking care of a banjolin , its the same tuning and it has the same amount of strings, or if anyone reading has one? the tuning pegs are so tight and I cant find someone to fix this.

Hi thanks for the tips they are very helpful. I just have one question. I adjusted my bride so the 12th fret is the same a open and the 7th fret sounds good just like you said. However the bride looks very wonky, one end is much higher then the other. Is that normal?

I just wasted a weekend frustrating myself not understanding the importance of the bridge position. All I wanted to do is replace my mando with new strings. When the bridge fell off I simply put it back where I thought I looked best not realizing the sound, harmonics are all impacted. It would not play scales. Now I know what I did wrong!

What grit sandpaper did you use?

Hi Jonathan... Nice to see your video one more time again today... The Harley Benton newly bought in Jan-21 has started giving out off notes...I mean not playing the sound they used to play when the instrument was new...I.e sharper or flatter at times...And harder on the fingers too...Maybe I need to lower the bridge...Fortunately it has 2 disk type screws to lower or raise the wooden bridge strip ... Also, i used the mandolin with the strings that came fitted with my model... Am going to change the strings today or tomorrow and shall be following all the steps from this your video for the intonation...Hopefully it should be alright after a while...Let's see... . One more question : I do have an electric guitar too that needs string replacement now...Can I use the same way to loop a string showed by you above here for the mandolin? Thanks again... Pune city, India

en fait, il faut inverser la boucle sur les cordes A et E , exact ?

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how can I get my bridge to angle slightly back towards the tailpiece...right now the bridge screws are angled a bit towards the neck

How do you prefer to mark your bridge position if you have an unfixed bridge when you take the strings off?

What should be the thickness of the plectrum for a general fun play? We get it in a variety of thicknesses...0.81 mm, 0.96 mm etc...I found the thinner one i.e 0.81 mm better in the sense it delivers a slightly louder sound...Was amazed to discover this... Would be glad to hear your expert comment here...Thanks for the above useful video about intonation. I have recently bought a Harley Benton Mandolin that has really a good sound ... The only down it has is the smaller tuning pegs, that strain the fingers too much while tuning. I had an old Hobmer make that had very comfortably fitting tuning pegs...Anyways... Shreepad, Pune city, India

A Paracha Lone Star being set up with a solid fixed (no thumbwheels) bridge from Elderly. Is there a standard action? A KZfaq video says Classical guitar standard is 3.8 mm from top of 12th fret to bottom of string for the top low pitch (6) string and 2.8 for the bottom (1). Do comparable measurements exist for mandolins? EDIT: Oh, I found lots of info on this so please don't bother yourself with my question.

What is the price of the Mandolin ( Bean shaped ) hanged behind you,sir. Thank you so much for your demo