![]() I play Irish tenor banjo and set them up for people. 12".Ģ3" - 19 fret scale length should sound better tone wise, but playing these 19 fretters involves a bit more fret hand position shifts and planning. I like the 21“ and a bit, 17 frets, myself less troublesome tuning issues with lighter string and a better, much better, character of tone than found on slightly shorter but more heavily strung instruments, I’m using ”.38. The loop can be a little tight so, I oval them out with the nib of a ball point pen, until they’ll fit 13 there are few regular poster on here who use much heavier gauges.Įither way, you want to get some single guitar strings to make up your own sets until you know the best gauge/ for your given instrument, whatever you decide get, just cut the ball off with a snip, snip along the string ball end outer groove, taking care not to damage the loop rebated in the ball grove, and off they pop. 12 for 19 fret, the heavier will work well on short scale banjos of intermediate scale length 17 fret, (intermediate scale length banjos 21 and a bit“ rather than short shorties of 19 3/4”) But some shorties need to be well strung for them to sound. On the issue of strings, a good place to start would be. ↳Īye, Nate, we’ll see how she pans out, I’ll still have my banjo, when the old girl dies. Maybe that will help, but mostly I posted just to tell my terrible jokes. Seriously though… I don’t play banjo but I know that the fellow in our group who does has a little tiny thing that he tunes A-D-A-E, like a fiddle, but one octave down, and with the bottom string to A instead of G. “Why didn’t you write and tell me? I”d have rushed back and married you, and the baby would have had my name!“ ”Well, when we found out I was pregnant, we had a couple long talks about it, and we all decided it would be better to have a bastard in the family than a banjo player." When he came back the next summer there she was, with a three-month-old baby. ![]() What do you say to a banjo player in a suit? Will the defendant please rise.Īnd then there was the banjo player who spent a summer at a music festival, staying at a lovely inn, spending lovely time with the innkeeper’s lovely daughter. What’s the best way to tune a banjo? With wire cutters. ![]() How many strings does a banjo have? Five too many. Re: Stupid Question About Tenor Banjo Tuning and Setup Of course any insight into tenor banjo setup for this music will be greatly appreciated ↳ It’s Friday so if you feel like some sport, then fair enough. I got my flame retardent coveralls on, so feel free to rip away. Am I looking for a 17 fret neck? …a 19 fret neck? …does that even matter? or do I just tune the silly thing down a fourth? if so, should I look for a particular gauge of strings, or will any old set of tenor banjo strings do the job? ![]() So here comes the stupid question…tenor banjos in these hills are tuned CGDA, but I know that Irish players tune it to GDAE, just like the fiddle. I have a 5 string banjo, that I tune to either Hillbilly G or Mountain Modal, and I’ll even pick some of these tunes on it, but I really would like a 4 string tenor to play this music on. So the government refunded me some of my taxes (what a country!) and I really would like to get a tenor banjo.
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