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That reminds me of a joke.

What do you call three accordions at the bottom of the ocean?

A good start.

This is a fine entry pitched at the correct level, but there's one small problem. From A28008777 - Mandolin Jones (Edited Entry):

"The bridge is movable, making this the most likely cause for a poor sound. The easiest way to tell is actually with an electronic tuner because you can readily check each of the strings. The drill is simple enough. Start with the G strings and get them tuned. Then press the twelfth fret which is one octave above the open string - it should still be in tune. If it's sharp then the bridge is too close to the neck. If it's flat, then the bridge is too far away. Note that the bridge can also be cocked so that the octave G sounds sharp and the octave E sounds flat. If you feel adventurous you can slack all the strings, move the bridge minutely, retune the strings and test again - repeating the procedure until pressing the twelfth fret of each string gives a true octave that is not sharp or flat. Otherwise take it to a shop and let them make this inexpensive adjustment."

Sorry

Alex

Ah - good spot. However, I have in mind updating Mandolin Jones so as to replace that paragraph with a reference to this entry instead - once it's in the EG, of course.

So, there shouldn't be a problem

Would I be better just taking this entry (which is rather short) and putting into the Mandolin JOnes entry at the appropriate point instead of that rather confusing paragraph?

It's up to you and pailaway, really. The Jones entry is quite long already, so it might benefit from having these specific instructions sat in a separate entry.

Alex is correct - I was actually a little unhappy with the length of Mandolin Jones at the time, but since there wasn't a separate entry on positioning the bridge it was necessary to treat it there.

Now, however, I can keep the advice about what to suspect if the sound is still dull, but then refer to this instead.

Conversely, if all one wanted to know was how to adjust the bridge, it'd be much better to only have to read this shorter entry.

Now then, if one were also to write a separate entry on tuning the mandolin, then there'd be another section in Mandolin Jones that I could shorten.

Good idea.

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