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Post by andy3sheds on Apr 1, 2020 21:42:39 GMT
I've got an old poss German parlour guitar that's had a hard life the neck joint has been shattered at some time and a few years ago I epoxied it back together then lost interest in doing much more to it. So I've resurrected the project it's got a scale length of 21 1/2 inches any suggestions to tuning and string gauge TIA
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Post by davewhite on Apr 2, 2020 11:52:27 GMT
Andy,
Any pictures? Fixed bridge or floating/tailpiece? What style is the top bracing? On your other thread you said that the saddle was straight - if it's a fixed bridge this would suggest that it had nylon strings as the string compensation is equal for all strings so using steel strings would give you some intonation issues. Silk and steels may work better. With a floating bridge you can angle the saddle to a degree.
If you have an idea of the string tension you need (based on the top bracing and tuning) then I have a spreadsheet that calculates string tension based on the note frequency, scale length and string mass (using D'Addario data for different string types and gauges) that I could e-mail to you to play around with.
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Post by davewhite on Apr 2, 2020 13:32:20 GMT
A 21.5" scale length suggests something like a Terz guitar tuning - 3 steps up from EADGBE.
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Post by andy3sheds on Apr 2, 2020 23:52:23 GMT
I'll sort some pics out hopefully tomorrow I'd always assumed it was steel strung as it's got a pin bridge and the machine heads have narrow string posts as opposed to rollers It's definitely not x braced a quick grope suggested it was ladder braced I suppose it could be bouchet I'll check
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Post by andy3sheds on Apr 4, 2020 21:49:40 GMT
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