... an old thread. To be honest, I've never had the urge or the need to play a Crafter. The only experience I've had is via my usual luthier who once told me he'd had a couple in with the bridge in the wrong place. Mandolins, having a very short scale, are hyper critical with respect to bridge placement. (If its not in the right place, you'll sound progressively out of tune as you go up the neck - assuming you can get the thing in tune in the first place) I've always assumed that this is the main reason for mandolins [and fiddles] having movable bridges so you can adjust them to perfection and It doesn't take much for tuning to be problematic. If you're going to buy a mandolin with a fixed bridge; e.g. a Crafter, and you know not a lot about mandolins (which, in my experience, tends to include the majority of people working in music shops) try to get the thing checked out by someone who does.
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