Hi Dave, you find will it hard to find a better tenor guitar player than John and he has quite a few youtube videos to watch but, there are also many more very talented players to be found on...
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Hi Dave, you find will it hard to find a better tenor guitar player than John and he has quite a few youtube videos to watch but, there are also many more very talented players to be found on...
It would depend if the guitars nut is slotted for CGDA as you may need file the nut or replacing the nut with bone if yours is plastic.
There are ways to cut the slots but without accurate files,...
In my own opinion, I think the Blueridge is better suited to GDAE, it is possible to tune CGDA as lots of folk do just that but, the A will always be very tight!
The big body works well with the...
I bough this amazing little instrument a few years ago now and I have since sold it on.
It cost about half the cost of a new Fletcher but is a 20” scale (also available in 21”)
I started off with...
Yes, a bit tight to get my hand in but quite possible, I cut a half round rasp in half and glued a bit of wood on the flat side to make it more comfortable to work with.
Just scalloped the bracing...
Dave, I could not agree more, the blueridge is a lovely instrument but they seem to be slightly overbuilt probably to make sure they last through the guarantee.
I first adjusted the bracing on my...
Yes indeed there are lots of very emotive opinions around, I try to steer away from such discussions about tone wood, laminate v solid and such like.
I am quite happy to let folk decide or believe...
A very worthy project, quite jealous really!
Yes they are probably tenor banjo players like the talented Dick Glasgow
https://youtu.be/zhKwkKr7Kxw?si=nUpLoG1HI815Wh42
Only my personal opinion but I think a 23” inch scale is more suitable for GDAE and 21” scale is just perfect for CGDA.
You get two for one in this video
https://youtu.be/aSDTqPu9gUU?si=zKOOD3YyqPLMnrc0
You could try googling the guitars and add Mandolin cafe to the search (you will get much better results than using the forum search engine )
I seem to remember the short scale uses heavy strings...
Basic chord shapes in 5ths on a tenor guitar must be about as easy as you can get on any instrument and work fine for rhythm as does CGDA.
However in my opinion, if you want a strumming instrument,...
I strung this one with nylon although it is a full size 21” scale tenor
https://youtu.be/eLjPKE0C-0Q?si=tnEcdZymClqH6MqM
CGDA on a 20” baritone ukulele is not as easy as GDAE to get it sounding good but in theory C 38w G 28w D 30p A.20p will give around 55lb of tension.
I set up my own 20” scale uke in GDAE with...
Hi, we have a quite long thread that may interest you https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/97711-How-to-string-Baritone-Uke-in-GDAE/page4
30p .24w .36w .48w Nylon works pretty well for a 20”...
Denko, thanks for that, they will probably become the collectable ones in years to come.
I dont know how many Blueridge tenors I have handled but it must be 20 or more and I have not come across a...
Wow that is very interesting indeed, I would love to know more?
Lots of choice to buy new nowadays, even a few 21” scales, wide neck, thin neck, cheap and expensive all available.
Vintage in good condition can be very expensive (at least in Europe) but there are...
Yes you can do that without any danger to the guitar but long term you would be better off doing, or having, a set up done to correct the action.
The thicker gauge strings will most likely sit a...
I dont see any Tenor guitar police so I guess he can call it whatever he wants, if it is tuned in 5ths then personally I would call it a guitar bodied octave mandolin.
Simon, I dont know the limits of your Asbury but the strings you are using come out at a massive 189lb!
So if we adjusted the scale to 23” and halved the strings to four and fitted them to a tenor...
As far as I know they are accurate, I have a thread somewhere, where I build my own string tension device just by laying out an adjustable scale length and a digital spring balance. My results were...
Is that $63.75 or $6,375.00.
Dave, you might find that using a string tension calculator very helpful.
You are looking for around 75-85 total pull or around 20lb per string, for the majority of tenor guitars this will offer a...