Mandolin has Grand Piano sound

Do your first loaded soundfont support the nylon sound? If note it will revert to the first sound in the soundfont, usually a grand piano.

I do to, running 5.3.2 and I'm currently working on score with a mandolin and it sounds like a nylon guitar. I didn't do anything to change its sound.

Forget everything I've said till now.

It seems the mandolin in 3.5.2 is coming up grand piano. I didn't remember changing it in my score and I'm sure (for what it's worth) I started it in 3.5.2 rather than a previous version.

Looking at instruments.xml I see the likely problem. #24 is mistakenly called "Acoustic Guitar (nylon)" in the comments and the GM1 standard (according to https://www.midi.org/specifications-old/item/gm-level-1-sound-set) has #24 as the very popular "Tango Accordion" which is not in the MuseScore General HQ soundfont. So all refererences to #24 - 31 in the guitar sounds are wrong in Instruments.xml. #24-31 should be #25-32.

IIRC the numbers (in GM and instruments.xml) are off by one, 1-based vs. 1-based, so 24 is the correct number for nylon strung guitar (and as that for mandolin too)

Whatever: when I create a score with a mandolin in 3.5.2. it does definitely not sound like a piano, but sound the same as classical guitar (nylon strung)

OK, the sound is right (using the HQ soundfont at least), but the mixer is wrong indeed

For the Mandolin, Mandola, Mandocello families we have:

                  <Channel>
                        <controller ctrl="32" value="16"/> <!--Mandolin-->
                        <program value="24"/> <!--Acoustic Guitar (nylon)-->
                  </Channel>

For Guitar (Nylon-strung) wqe have:

                  <Channel name="open">
                        <program value="24"/> <!--Acoustic Guitar (nylon)-->
                  </Channel>
<xml>

What it should be though is:

                  <Channel>
                        <controller ctrl="32" value="16"/> <!--Mandolin-->
                        <program value="25"/> <!--Acoustic Guitar (steel)-->
                  </Channel>

See https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/pull/6909

And indeed my brown bag from 9b93615

And as such a 3.5 regression

I'd prefer Mr. Holmes ;-)

It was using a nylon string sound, now with this PR will be using a steel-string sound

Fixed in branch 3.x, commit 3a400da900

Fix #313428: Mandolin has Grand Piano sound

Fixed in branch master, commit e3fe9ebb03

Fix #313428: Mandolin has Grand Piano sound

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