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Keni Lee Burgess's Blog – October 2012 Archive (5)
About the 3 String Rural Primative Banjo
A standard 5 string banjo is often tuned to Open G (gDgbd). Disregarding the high drone g string, using a 4 string CBG, I usually use Dgbd tuning (CD 5). This is also the highest strings of the full 6 string tuning on guitar for Open G - DGDgbd (CD 2).…
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Considerations for Building Cigar Box Guitars from a Players/Musicians Perspective 3
Many builders are new to music, so here are some thoughts about what makes an instrument function better from a musical perspective.
Number of Strings and Tuning
There are endless possibilities to…
Added by Keni Lee Burgess on October 18, 2012 at 11:34pm — 2 Comments
Considerations for Building Cigar Box Guitars from a Players/Musicians Perspective 2
Many builders are new to music, so here are some thoughts about what makes an instrument function better from a musical perspective.
String Height: The distance the strings run above the fingerboard is called string "Action".…
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Considerations for Building Cigar Box Guitars from a Players/Musicians Perspective 1
Many builders are new to music, so here are some thoughts about what makes an instrument function better from a musical perspective.
1. Scale Length: This is the string distance from nut to bridge. The longer the scale the…
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Guitar Open Tuning Correlations
There are 12 keys of music. Using numbers to represent the 8 notes that makes up their respective major scales, it is easier to understand the tunings. These three are the most common open tunings mainly because they can be achieved using a standard guitar string configuration (EADGBE) They are called "open" because they produce a major chord when strummed. A major chord requires 3 notes (1,3,5) from the major scale.
Vestapol Tuning: 151351 aka Open D (DADf#ad)
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