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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on October 27, 2011 at 12:14pm

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I recently posted:  Variations of G5 Tuning (GDg)

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on October 28, 2011 at 4:40am

Trad tuning is (I think!) G -D A (low to high), but that does depend on the scale.  Those strings are pretty heavy for a saz, usually .008 or even .007 is the norm for the top and octave courses, 11s or 12s in the middle

 

The baglama (saz) is usually 6 or 7 strings, double course (unison) on the bottom, double course (octave) on the middle  with triple course on the top, (octave with 2 trebles).

 

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Permalink Reply by Ben on October 28, 2011 at 4:51am

I just did a 4 string double coursed (8 Strings total) guitar. I used a standard 6 pack of strings plus and extra 1 and 2. I strung it up so that 6 and 4 are coursed in octaves. 5 and 3 coursed in octaves and the 2 and 2 in unison, and 1 and 1 in unison. This gives a "12 string" sound to my two favorite tunings: DdGgbbdd and DdF#f#aadd. (Good tunings to use with Keni Lee's group)

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Permalink Reply by DeltaglowBoy on October 28, 2011 at 5:35am

Thanks, that begins to give me some direction to go.

I've seen so many great tunings for both 3 and 4 strings that I had to go and complicate things by making a double course and then not knowing where to go in tuning it .... ha ha.

I'm hoping other suggestions will come up from the "Idea People" here at CBN that have more of a musical backround.

Thanks again for your reply.

 

I'm not concerned with tuning the Saz (baglama) as I have tunings for it.

 

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Permalink Reply by Bad Finger (Eric) on October 28, 2011 at 6:01am

Is there a reason you didn't try it at the E5 tuning EBE?

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Permalink Reply by DeltaglowBoy on October 28, 2011 at 6:18am

My mistake ... good catch. My original post should have said EBE. Too many letters swirling around my head at the time and it was also my first posting attempt so I wanted to get it right and still messed up.

 

Yes, it is in EBE but the question still remains as what to tune the second course ..... as I said, right now it is set up in unison just to try it out.

Thanks

Deltaglowboy
ED (Bad Finger) said:

Is there a reason you didn't try it at the E5 tuning EBE?

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Permalink Reply by Michael Fred Johnson on October 29, 2011 at 3:25am

Built a three course small guitar recently and tuned it AEA with the third course a second string and a fifth string

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Permalink Reply by DeltaglowBoy on October 29, 2011 at 4:24am

ChickenboneJohn said:

Trad tuning is (I think!) G -D A (low to high), but that does depend on the scale.  Those strings are pretty heavy for a saz, usually .008 or even .007 is the norm for the top and octave courses, 11s or 12s in the middle

 

The baglama (saz) is usually 6 or 7 strings, double course (unison) on the bottom, double course (octave) on the middle  with triple course on the top, (octave with 2 trebles).

 

Thanks for the reminder, I did go back and researched what my Saz uses and it appears that the strings are .08 (.09 can be substituted). I was initially going on outward appearance and those thin strings look very much alike but you are right .... I wasn't sure what the middle course was so .11 is good to know.

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