I just bought my second cittern on eBay, a German Thuringia Waldzither. It should arrive nexzt week. It guitar tuners, not watch key tuners, so I won't need a tuning key.
I'd like to tune it to GDADG or GDADA, i e octave mandolin tuning plus an extra high string. The lowest course will be a single string since it has nine strings, but that's okay.
I'm looking for advice on what string gauges to use for this tuning. I don't know the scale length yet, I'm guessing between 17 and 18.5 inches which seems typical. I've read a lot of different threads on this site and the session, there are a lot of different opinions out there.
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