Need some strings for your 8-string electric octave mandolin or bouzouki? You've come to the right place. Choose an option below, or design your own set. (If you want 5-string or 8-string standard mandolin sets, or mandocello sets, I also have those.) If you have a magnetic pickup, you need nickel steel strings like these; they'll provide a stronger signal than bronze acoustic strings. Octave mandolin sets are for GDAE, GDAD, or ADAD tuning with all strings tuned in unison pairs. The Irish and Greek bouzouki sets are the ones to use if you want to tune with octave pairs on the lower courses (which is optional for Irish players but pretty much obligatory for Greek ones). Here are the details: