Agree entirely re the benefit of music theory in opening up your playing and understanding of an instrument! Switching between guitar, banjo and mandolin really did this for me, made me look at and eventually understand chords in a way I never bothered to do when just playing the guitar...
Hard agree. From my experience, this comes from the different tuning steps - the violin style tuning on mando/(Irish tuning)banjo totally altered how I visualised scale patterns
Yep, different tunings generally really helped me break out of the structures of the original chord shapes I learned and start having to work out chord inversions/voicings etc.
Agree entirely re the benefit of music theory in opening up your playing and understanding of an instrument! Switching between guitar, banjo and mandolin really did this for me, made me look at and eventually understand chords in a way I never bothered to do when just playing the guitar...