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afsddfsOn Sat, 9 May 2020 16:25:17 +0100, Nathan Ace
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nathanace71@gmx.com> wrote:
I do love quasi-baritone tunings such as you get with Alex de Grassi and >Thomas Leeb but getting into the ukulele - my tenor being tuned two
semitones down with thicker strings - has retuned my ear to enjoy other >sounds.
Thanks if you know what I'm talking about.
Fender Phase VI is .102 to .028, wound straight across. Some of the
other six-string "baritones" are huge fretboard widths and thicker
strings yet. Stretches across fretboard width and longer length are disorienting positionally for coming from, being used to, a shorter
scale with lighter gauge strings. I haven't run into anything yet
that has the Phase VI's compactness from closely spaced strings, which
still require more hand strength, more precision, at an added price
involving sooner fatigue. But, above the fifth-fret, they will do the cross-over baritone, "thing-in-itself", Fender's approximation to
standard guitars, for the extra strength to play their baritone in
itself;- single-coils in a strat array does as well offer the added
brightness, with a .028 still being just that. Drop-tuning a .102,
however, won't cut it, as string slop comes on fast. I have seen some
who mention an interest in adapting a heavier gauge 6th E, all else by
leeway for an easier way, which much else to modify, to go heavier
than stock equipped. Might take some getting used to, depending, for
stock three-hour stints.
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