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Topic: Restring Tricone to C6 or transpose with G6? |
Adam Tracksler
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 9:30 am |
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I'm kind of having an existential issue with choosing a tuning. Do you think its better to restring a tricone to C6 or to keep it in G6 (which I can pretty easily wingback into Low and High G) and transpose?
Thanks in advance for your sage advice..... |
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John Rosett
From:
Missoula, MT
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 9:37 am
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I'm no expert on tricones, but it seems to me that the heavier gauge strings of the G6 tuning would produce a better tone and more volume than the C6 gauges.
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Ken Pippus
From:
Langford, BC, Canada
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 11:11 am
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| Yup. |
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Jim Sallis
From:
Arizona, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 11:11 am Tricone and C/A6
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| I went round and round with this too, and my solution was to tune the tricone to A6, which means you can keep your regular high-G resonator strings. Low to high A C# E F# A C. |
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Adam Tracksler
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 1:15 pm
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| I'll try A6, Moving up 3 frets is easier than moving up 5 (especially in my head!) |
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Patrick Harison
From:
Minneapolis, MN
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 5:00 pm
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Most folks will tell you that G6 is the way to go on a tricone as it holds better tension against the cones. They're right. That being said, I play mine in C6 because that's the tuning I know really well. It sounds just fine, but probably not as beefy as it would in a lower tuning. I use heavier gauges than electric C6, so that helps make it sound not so anemic.
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Adam Tracksler
From:
Maine, USA
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Posted 26 Jan 2015 6:01 pm
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| Patrick, what are the gauges you use? |
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Edward Meisse
From:
Santa Rosa, California, USA
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Posted 3 Feb 2015 8:16 pm
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I go with C6 also. 14, 18, 24,26, 32, 38.
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