Just received my new Tangi Manini from MGM! WOW does it have some amazing sustain - I am shocked! For such an itty bitty little thing, it has powerful voice and is a lot easier to play than I expected. A little hard to hold - because the bridge is mounted close to the lower edge, you have to adjust where you put your right forearm a bit, but I'm getting the hang of it. This little guy is going to live in my desk at work so I can practice at lunch time.
MGM's site mentions that these are usually tuned cfad, but when I opened it up I found it was almost perfectly tuned gcea. The strings are quite flexible with this tuning, but like I said, the voice is amazing.
Any reasons not to play it like this? Drawbacks? Anybody recommend strings besides those that came on it (don't know what they are - they're black...) (found a short thread here about strings on a Manini, but there were no real consclusions).
Thanks!
MGM's site mentions that these are usually tuned cfad, but when I opened it up I found it was almost perfectly tuned gcea. The strings are quite flexible with this tuning, but like I said, the voice is amazing.
Any reasons not to play it like this? Drawbacks? Anybody recommend strings besides those that came on it (don't know what they are - they're black...) (found a short thread here about strings on a Manini, but there were no real consclusions).
Thanks!