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Re-entrant tuning on short-scale guitars?
I've been playing around with my little Giannini 1/4 - 1/8 size nylon-string guitar (19" scale) and considering a purchase of a requinto (22" scale) as well. I enjoy the little guy as an ukulele alternative for strumming and singing and it works well with songs that are chorded for capo on 3/4/5 since I can tune to low string at G or A (standard guilele / requinto tuning is A) and it works perfectly with standard chord fingerings/voicings.
I'm not a good enough on-the-fly transposer to read songbooks that are at original pitch, though, since I would have to shift the chords down a 4th (and tuning down doesn't work well on small guitars). I'm curious if anyone has tried re-entrant tuning for small guitars to play them at standard pitch. I'm thinking of shifting the strings over one position (i.e. 6->5, 5->4, etc.), tuning to regular pitch, and then swapping a lighter-gauge string for the low E, perhaps tuning to middle E--making eAdgbe'. Anyone else done this? Any thoughts? |
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Southcoast guilele set
I just found this on Southcoast's string site (http://www.southcoastukes.com/013.htm). Seems like a decent setup for an instrument like my Giannini, though it's re-entrant on the 3rd string rather than the 2nd as I had envisioned:
Almost as soon as we released our EFS Guilele String Set, we were made aware that Guileles are now also being built in the style of a Baritone Ukulele as well - with 20” scales. We will now have an EFS set for the longer scale as well. The tuning on that scale will remain the same: e a d' g b e'. |
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It like a guitalele
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