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Topic: "Nashville" tuning for acoustic |
Rick Barnhart
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 16 Jun 2012 7:38 pm |
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I want to try the "Nashville" tuning on an acoustic guitar. I believe thats accomplished by stringing the 3rd and 4th strings an octave higher, and leaving the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th at standard pitch. What gauge strings should the alternate strings be? I'm pretty sure this isnt posted in the correct place. Thanks
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Brian Hunter
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Indianapolis
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Posted 16 Jun 2012 9:01 pm
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I always did it by changing all but the 1st and 2nd strings.
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Joachim Kettner
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Germany
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Posted 17 Jun 2012 12:31 am
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It takes a 12 string set, of course here strings 1 and 2 are identical.
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Tom Franke
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2012 6:32 pm
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I've played with the tuning a bit. Basically you're changing all 4 wound strings to unwound, and back when I first tried it some years ago an easy way to get string sets was to use the unwound octave strings from a 12 string set to get a 6 string set for the high tuning, which is what Joachim is describing. Now some companies are selling Nashville tuning sets. Both Martin and D'Addario market them.
I use the tuning on a Baby Taylor, which doesn't have much low end anyway. I would think on some guitars there might be some set up issues with such a big change in string dimension and tension in replacing the thick wound strings with much thinner unwounds, but I found the baby Taylor worked fine without any changes but the strings. . |
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Tom Franke
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Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2012 6:33 pm
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I've played with the tuning a bit. Basically you're changing all 4 wound strings to unwound, and back when I first tried it some years ago an easy way to get string sets was to use the unwound octave strings from a 12 string set to get a 6 string set for the high tuning, which is what Joachim is describing. Now some companies are selling Nashville tuning sets. Both Martin and D'Addario market them.
I use the tuning on a Baby Taylor, which doesn't have much low end anyway. I would think on some guitars there might be some set up issues with such a big change in string dimension and tension in replacing the thick wound strings with much thinner unwounds, but I found the baby Taylor worked fine without any changes but the strings. . |
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Rick Barnhart
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 23 Jun 2012 6:44 pm
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I have several .11's from my pedal steels. I simply removed 3 and 4 and strung up a pair of those in their place, just as an experiment. Sound pretty awesome I think. I doubt if I'll leave it that way, but it makes for a nice change. Thanks for all the advice.
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Chris Walke
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St Charles, IL
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