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    Quote Originally Posted by (sailaway @ Oct. 16 2007, 09:56)
    also there #are 'Plectrum Banjo Societies' (check #out links #to BANJO #BANDS at the #Banjos Unlimited #web #page # where #lots #of #folks #get #together #and #play #stuff #like Waiting for the Robert E. Lee and Alabama Jubilee #and #Down #yonder and #Aura Lee #and the Marine #Hymn.... a lot #of #low #pressure #high #volume #fun !!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by mando.player View Post
    They can be. Another common tuning is CGDA, same intervals.
    They do make Special Tenor Guitar Strings for GDAE Tuning, it's slightly lower in pitch than CGDA & you're less likely to break the top string. I've had issues breaking the top string trying to get it up to an A4 cause either the string wasn't thin enough or the scale length is longer than what's recommended. Tuning it down to GDAE helped me.

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    Default Re: Mandolin vs tenor guitar

    Quote Originally Posted by s11141827 View Post
    They do make Special Tenor Guitar Strings for GDAE Tuning, it's slightly lower in pitch than CGDA & you're less likely to break the top string. I've had issues breaking the top string trying to get it up to an A4 cause either the string wasn't thin enough or the scale length is longer than what's recommended. Tuning it down to GDAE helped me.
    Dear s1141827: Yet another antique thread—this one more than 15 years old!—you feel obliged to reply to. Who is "they" who makes these strings? More specific info might be useful even tho some of the posters on this thread are no longer active. The problem with tuning standard CGDA strings are not that they will break when tuned down but that they will sound poorly since they will be too loose. You don't tune up to mandolin tuning, you tune down to octave tuning.
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