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04-09-2020, 04:01 PM
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J-F C,
I'm not Wade but I play a baritone and decided to go with B to B tuning for a couple of reasons. First, B to B allows the baritone to be played with guitars in standard tuning better than any other key. You capo according to the key that standard guitars are playing in. You will be playing different chords than the other guitar be you will be in tune with them. With the scale length and the available strings, tuning B to B and using a capo as needed gives my baritone it's best tone.
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04-13-2020, 12:27 PM
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yeah, I wanted to play in B-B, but this 29 3/4" scale is so huge, that with daddario strings had almost 50lbs tension on 4th string!
So I decided to go A-A, and sometimes go to G, and start to use Newtone strings custom set. My new autumn baritune with "spoon hammered dulcimer"
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04-13-2020, 02:05 PM
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04-13-2020, 08:24 PM
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I too play B-B. I tried other tunings and sometimes use them, but to my ears B-B simply sounds the best. Too high and whats the point; too low and it becomes more difficult to hear and/or distinguish. B-B is the sweet spot for me.
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#21
04-16-2020, 04:22 AM
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2nd string: .022 wound (i donīt like it plain in this huge gauge) 3rd string: .030 wound 4th string: .044 wound (.042 could be fine too) 5th string: .058 wound 6th string: .070 wound
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04-18-2020, 10:46 AM
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When I first had the Beneteau, I thought that I'd like A to A, but eventually found that I liked B to B better. I usually play by myself, but my friends who play better with others than I do also like B to B because that puts them a fifth below a standard-tuned guitar. I also like starting there when I tune to an open tuning, such as Open A using the 151351 Open D relationships, which also keeps the tuned down a fifth relationship. I settled on gauges as much by feel much more than using a calculator of string tension. But then again I like standard guitars with a short scale and light strings in both standard tuning and tuned down to Open D, Open G and Open C.
28" scale. Usually use a Pearse light Baritone set, .015, .022, .030, .043, .054, .068. But sometimes I'll take a set of standard lights put on a single .068 on the sixth string, and move everything else over on string, tossing the 1st. I particularly like this in the aforementioned Open A. I like a wound second. I also have a baritone Weissenborn, tuned to Open A. 30" scale. I've had a couple of Pearse D-tuning Weissenborn sets:068 to .017. It does have an unwound .022 second. I do have a .70 and .072 that I got from Breezy Ridge after talking with them, and my next change I plan to see what sort of custom set that I come up with, although I may never use the 72. Or I may use it and try tuning to Open G, 151351. OMMV
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05-31-2020, 10:30 AM
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My guitar came with the area under the upper bout apex lined so I can put a port in if I decide to in the future.
The work is very clean and I like the shape of yours and would be my choice. Did you freehand the cuts or have a pattern for you Dremel to follow wit a bushing.
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