I bought a tenor guitar because the 6 string steel has been a bit much for my aging left wrist. I was hoping that in octave mandolin tuning, I would be able to revive all my old mandolin tunes.
I was inspired by watching Tom Kymber and others but it turns out that 5ths on a tenor guitar requires some stretches that were easier on a mandolin and maybe would have been possible for a younger me. I got different strings and tuned the tenor to DGBE and that is working fine. Luckily I also found that I seem to be able to play the mandolin again without too much pain and I restrung a tenor uke in CGDA and a soprano uke to GDAE. Now if I could really retire I might have enough time to spend time with all these instruments.
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