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Olive Wood Electric guitar tuning???

Posted by john mackay on August 21, 2015 at 5:56am in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

while I was setting the frets etc and taking the string off using the hand winding thing,

I snapped the top string 24 gauge obviously not paying attention to what I was doing.

so I put a 16 gauge string on so now it 42,32,16 what the best tuning for this this set up .

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  • King Rubbish August 21, 2015 at 1:11pm

    Hmm, tricky... 

    I think I'd maybe go for either: 

     DAa - this would give you a root, fifth and then another fifth an octave higher 

    EAa - giving you a low fifth, root and another root one octave up.  This one might also work as DGg.   

    The guitar would then be like a two stringer with an extra 'double' string for one of its notes.  Remember you can play exactly the same frets on either of the two doubled strings and it would sound fine, just higher or lower depending on the sound you wanted. 

  • john mackay August 21, 2015 at 12:49pm

    6,5,4 strings were used but snapped the 4th so fitted the 3rd string.

  • King Rubbish August 21, 2015 at 12:47pm

    Hi John,

    I'm guessing you were using the 3, 4 and 5 strings from a regular 6-string pack and you've had to substitute in the 2 string? 

    If so I would give AEA a try.  Hope this helps. 

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