all right today alanmusicshop.com brings to you a special mandolin tuning tutorial i sold one of these gold tone gm 35 f-style mandolins to a good customer of ours last week and i promised him i would try to put up this post on youtube for him so it would make it easier for him to tune the mandolin so here we go at the end of the video we'll have a quick guide for advanced players who just need to hear the tones of each string and you can jump to the end for that if you'd like if you want to stick around for a thorough tutorial then here we go the mainland consists of eight strings it's actually four pairs and the way it's designed is the first string little number little string so the first string is your smallest pair of strings the first string is your e string and i'm actually using a fender fct 12 tuner to tune this mandolin today in relationship to your acoustic guitar the first string there is the first string on the acoustic guitar twelfth fret okay so first string on the littlest string on your acoustic guitar the little e string holding down the 12th fret the second pair of strings on your mandolin or right above the little e are the a string pair the a string pair are also plain steel just like the little e in relationship to your acoustic guitar the a string pair the second pair on the mandolin are the same as your fifth fret first string on the acoustic guitar so i'm holding down the fifth fret on the first string the little e string on the acoustic guitar if i'm tuning to my guitar player the third pair of strings which are bronze wound is your d string your d string pair and in relationship to the acoustic guitar that note is going to be i'm holding down the third fret on the second string which is actually my b string on the acoustic guitar on the third fret is actually my d note on the acoustic guitar and finally the fourth string the pair of strings at the top is my g my g string pair and in relationship to the acoustic guitar that note is third string open okay so first second third from the bottom up third string open g in relationship to the acoustic guitar so i should now be in tune all right so today we're tuning the gold tone gm 35 which is on sale for 389. it's a beautiful sunburst mandolin with the f scroll comes with the featherweight deluxe goldtone case at the 389 price we're tuning this mandolin with the fender fct 12 tuner this is on sale this is a youtube special for the month of september october november if you say you saw it on youtube you can get it for 16.99 the coupon code is you saw it on youtube at allen music shop 16.99 all right we're also got some specials going on for the next three months september october november of 2012. if you say you saw it on youtube at allen music shop at allenmusicshop.com or come and see us at 215 kentucky avenue you can get four sets of martin acoustic strings that's their m100 series or their marquee series or their sp series four sets for 20 bucks okay we also have the lifespans on sale for about 14.99 we've got martin polish on sale if you say you saw it on youtube for 4.99 and we've got martin straps on sale if you say you saw the 2-inch nylon guitar strap on allen music shop's youtube channel you can get the 2-inch nylon strap for 9.99 so we want your business we really appreciate your support of our family business we need your business and we appreciate you guys coming to us so please leave some comments like our video tell us what you need tell us what price you want to pay tell us what kind of service you need we're here to serve we're here to please we thank you guys for coming to us so give us a call at 270-442-8900 or support allenmusicshop.com or guitarsmusicshop.com and tell us what you need and we'll do our very best to serve you guys thank you so much god bless you and have a great day now you