Sorry for the dumb question but can certain strings only be tuned within a certain range? I am planning on doing some diddley bows with my daughter's brownie troop and to save costs was going to use a couple of packs of strings and split them up among the girls. I don't know what the limitations are.

Thanks for any advice,
Mike

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Thanks I do have one. I got one that clips to the end of the guitar made by snark. Seems to work ok, I think so anyway :-)

It is possible to use really light strings tuned down. I have extra lights 1-4 tuned to ( from high to low) B, G, D, G. But I wouldn't recommend it. The guitar is hard to keep in tune and hard to play. Have to be careful how I strum and hold a cord or note down. It's way to easy to bend the strings out of tune. 

This is just laziness  on my part. I had the guitar set up to be a tenner in standard tuning. Then wanted to try 1513 tuning. I'll put better strings on it soon. 

PS, no such thing as a dumb question. Only dumb answers. : ) 

Strings that is the whole question????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

six diddleys strung EBGDAe - should make an interesting orchestra!  :-)

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