Erynn Marshall & Carl Jones Play Happy Hollow - Fiddle/Guitar 

Will keep that in the memory banks. Congrats on retirement Michael!

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I haven't done it but the main thing to think about is string gauges if you tune up to A--- lighter strings might be warranted. I'm sure that would work fine... Having more than one mandolin would be great too so you can leave one in a different tuning all the time . Keep in mind too that another option, and probably what I would do is tune down a step or even 1 &1/2 steps to try it out on your mandolin. Should sound great and let you explore the fingerings as well as not stress your instrument. You might try some tunes in cross G--- G----D -----G-----G and go from there. Skip Gorman has done some recordings on an old Washburn Mando (Cow Camp Mandolin) that he retuned... you might check that out. Hope that helps ever so slightly.

@@hickoryjack55 thank so much for this response - i can't believe I missed it! I do play in GDGD now and again, so I'll maybe just keep my spare mando on that tuning for a while. I love the sound of the open fiddle tunings. I'll definitely check out Skip Gorman's stuff. Thanks again, and I hope you're safe and well. Laura-Beth

Hey Michael! Good to hear from you. I've been in Galax, VA for about 11 years now but will be in Toronto this Dec to visit. Keep on playing! cheers, Erynn