Each of the 12 pieces of"Mandopolis" has such non-everyday characteristics, as the strings of the mandolin, which are usually tuned in pairs and in fifths, have to be retuned in each piece. 10 different tunings can be found in the musical deities of "Mandopolis". A scordatura, the retuning of the strings on the mandolin, is unusual. The best-known work in classical literature for an instrument that uses a scordatura is certainly Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber's famous "Rosenkranz-Sonaten" for violin solo from the 17th century.
The violin presents itself in numerous, in each case new basic tunings, which always set different overtones and thus other atmospheres.

The classical mandolin, which is tuned in violin tuning, uses scordaturas extremely rarely. But if applied, a scordaturahas a decisive advantage over the violin: its double strings. If these usually pair-tuned strings are now individually tuned, they cannot produce only up to 4 but up to 8 different notes, even two more than the scordatura-proven guitar. In this respect, Kindle realizes a potential that neither the violin nor the guitar possess. But even in those movements that use 4, 5 or 6 different open strings, the mandolin in “Mandopolis” sounds novel, unknown, not commonplace, as it is said about the appearance of the gods in the dust of everyday life. The complexity of the sound increases with the scordaturas, and the play with the pick occasionally demands a new form of precision of the right hand, as in some of the pieces one string sounds different than its neighbor when played in up- or down-stroke.