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Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 5:09
AM
Subject: Re: Baryton guitar
strings/tuning?
Well, my bariton scale Telecaster is not "low" (currently) but
maybe you could see it as "unique" to tune it as a regular guitar despite the
longer scale. I never thought about that way, I just tried regular E A D G B E
tuning out of curiosity and since I happened to have a spare set of regulars -
and am surprised how great it sounds this way! It doen't sound any bariton at
all, just like a super Telecaster but with better intonation, better balansing
of both frequencies and notes in a chord and finally much more
prounounced fundamentals. So I'm wondering if anyone knows what mojo is at
work here? My layman theory is that longer and thinner strings behave this
way. Maybe it also has to do with the thin and high frets of this All-Parts
neck? Both factors also applying to the Stick that executes these very same
sonic characteristics. Just taking a guess here, I need to experiment more,
also with normal bariton tuning (by thicker strings) and
compare.
On Saturday, June 2, 2012, chaz worm wrote:
Cool Per! I've always preferred unique things. That is why my first
banjo that I inherited, a very cheap horrible banjo, one of the first things
I did was rip out the frets and made it a nylon strings. I think usually
banjos will often use classical guitar sets plus a 1 string for the high
drone.
In my little town the local guitarsmith only has ONE classical single
but it was the B string or 2. I like low things. Instead of the standard
1,4,3,2,1.
I had an epiphany. Why not 2,5,4,3,2?
It's now my favorite axe. My Baritone, fretless nylon string minstrel
banjo.
Fwiw, here's a recent clip of me not using it
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Chaz
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Per man you are getting all sorts of cool things these days, last
week the Tim Donahue harp fretless, this week a tele baritone, what's
next?
one standard thought is that yes it has longer scale of the neck so
one suggested tuning is lo
B E A D F# B which parallels std E A D G B E by 4th down. On a 12
string of late I have been using C G D G B E though I jump around a fair
amount in tunings.
how are you tuning your fretless harp
strings?
jim
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
For some reason I'm suspecting there are
many guitarists subscribed to
this list. So may I please ask you a
question: What strings do you
prefer for baryton guitar?
I
just achieved a bariton Telecaster, by replacing the neck with
an
American All-Parts bariton neck, and at the moment I'm playing it
with
.010 strings tuned as a normal guitar. This sounds so damn good
I can
hardly imagine a guitar can sound better! But isn't baryton
supposed
to be lower? Is the normal procedure to strap it with
thicker strings
and tune them lower?
Greetings from
Sweden
Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen
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