Trinity College TM-325 Celtic Octave Mandolin (Natural Finish, Hardshell Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)I received my TM - took it out of the box - stood the bridge up in a reasonable place - checked the tuning - adjusted and have been playing it ever since - good looking good sounding well priced instrument

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Trinity College TM-250 Celtic Mandolin (Natural Finish, Hardshell Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)Great sound, feel, good action, fit and finish is top quality, a very good value.

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Trinity College TM-250B Celtic Mandolin (Black Finish, Hardshell Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is my second mandolin; I was looking for an intermediate instrument to replace my beginner Oscar Schmidt. This mandolin has an ok sound and is fun to play. The details are quite striking and I am pleased with it. The only caution is the bridge comes separate and not installed, but it's easy enough to install one's self. I did a quick Internet search on "install mandolin bridge" and found several videos and presentations on how to do it took me about an hour to get the intonation and tuning correct using an electronic tuner.
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I have been playing this mandolin for a year now and my left hand is beat! the action is too stiff and after an hour of hard play, the fingers are screaming for a break. it does sound best with Martin light strings.

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Trinity College TM-625 Celtic Octave Mandolin (Natural Finish, Hardshell Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)You will find no lower price for this very nice high quality instrument. Strong mids with slightly subdued highs (no ice pick treble with this one) and you can alter the tone nicely with where you pick. The low G is a little weak and warbley. I suspect the string spacing at the nut or bridge may be a just a hair too close for the larger strings. Very nicely made instrument. Finish is excellent, no finish flaws of any kind. Very nice selection of woods. Excellent sustain and nice volume (it's not a cannon though). I suspect it will open up nicely over time. The tuners are very good, not great...just slighly too sensitive to tweaking. The neck is very comfortably sized with just the slightest fretboard radius. A slightly smaller radius and slighlty larger width going up the neck, and it would be perfect (for me). Only one thing bothered me...This came with no product documentation of any kind, just a tool for the truss rod.

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Gold Tone GM-6 Octave Mandolin (Maple) Review

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(More customer reviews)Properly speaking it's an octave guitar (an octave higher than standard guitar tuning) with a mandolin body. Well made, even and smooth sides to the frets, sounds good.
String tension is high, but this possibly is one of the sources of the proper tone.
Doesn't sound exactly like a mandolin but it's in the infield -- well more than in the ballpark. For guitarists it's a play-right-now instrument which is fun. If, like me, your hands are kinda large for a real mandolin it will take a little practice, but it rewards the effort.

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Trinity College TM-375 Irish Bouzouki (Natural Finish, Hardshell Case) Review

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(More customer reviews)The build quality and finish on this instrument is good. My only complaint is that the strap button was not glued in properly.
The unit arrived in it's case with an installed set of strings. The floating bridge was not set up, and was in a separate bag. No instructions whatsoever came with this unit, and they don't have a web presence. Since I hadn't set up a floating bridge before it was trial and error, but once it was set up, it sounds great tuned to GDAD.
Another concern is that the two lower courses are set up in octaves. If you want to switch these to unison, you are going to have the task of routing out the nut and bridge, as the grooves for the higher string on each of those courses is a lot thinner and wouldn't fit the thicker unison string.


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