| Steve DeRosa |
02-03-2023 01:34 PM |
There's a local player who has the rosewood BR-60 and BR-70 (both of which she keeps in CGDA tuning) and they're good-sounding instruments, so I see no reason the mahogany BR-40 shouldn't be on the same level...
FWIW I don't know how you intend to use yours, but if you're thinking in terms of Chicago DGBE to lessen the learning curve you might want to try drop-G tenor uke tuning (GCEA low-to-high, with the G and E identical to standard guitar tuning); this overlaps the mandolin/fiddle/Nashville-guitar range and, since it's better-suited to the small tenor body, it can either serve as an alternate lead instrument or provide sparkle to an arrangement. While not popular for guitar, it was adopted by uke players making the transition to tenor banjo, in an effort to cash in on the demand for jazz bands in the 1920's; although it fell out of favor when the archtop guitar came into prominence in the 1930's - TMK Chuck Romanoff of Schooner Fare (from whom I first learned about it) is the sole active proponent - I have a Deering Boston tenor banjo set up this way, and I've used it for just about every imaginable style of acoustic music...
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