So does a tenor guitar equal a baritone uke when it comes to the seasons? What thinketh the seasoned seasonistas
I have an old tenor banjo set up with nylonish strings that I call a baritone banjo uke. Now t b at I have a National tenor guitar I want to use it
I have the National tenor guitar tuned DGBE , that's the same as the Lanikai baritone
You are absolutely right.Okay, please don't laugh at the newbie, okay? (New to uke and all things stringed August 31, 2013.)
But why is GCEA or DGBE called "tuned in 4ths"? The middle interval is a third, no? Am I missing something?
Okay, please stop laughing now and explain it to me.
- Wendy
Okay, please don't laugh at the newbie, okay? (New to uke and all things stringed August 31, 2013.)
But why is GCEA or DGBE called "tuned in 4ths"? The middle interval is a third, no? Am I missing something?
Okay, please stop laughing now and explain it to me.
- Wendy
Because "mostly tuned in fourths" is awkward to say?
A guitar is tuned in fourths, except for the B string, which is a major third, as you observe. So somewhere along the way, I think the world said, "5 out of 6 ain't bad" and referred to it as tuning in fourths, while we all quietly said to ourselves "except for the B!"
In ukes, it's a bit more apparent, since we only have four strings. So we're still mostly tuned in fourths, but now it's 3 out of 4 instead of 5 out of 6.
But 3 out of 4 ain't bad.
Okay, please don't laugh at the newbie, okay? (New to uke and all things stringed August 31, 2013.)
But why is GCEA or DGBE called "tuned in 4ths"? The middle interval is a third, no? Am I missing something?
Okay, please stop laughing now and explain it to me.
- Wendy
Because "mostly tuned in fourths" is awkward to say?
A guitar is tuned in fourths, except for the B string, which is a major third, as you observe. So somewhere along the way, I think the world said, "5 out of 6 ain't bad" and referred to it as tuning in fourths, while we all quietly said to ourselves "except for the B!"
In ukes, it's a bit more apparent, since we only have four strings. So we're still mostly tuned in fourths, but now it's 3 out of 4 instead of 5 out of 6.
But 3 out of 4 ain't bad.
Thanks, Paul! You made my head spin, but that's a very helpful overview. This is my first stringed instrument (except for extremely brief long-ago bouts with viola and guitar ... too short to have gotten curious about the tunings, or even remembered them). So it's helpful to understand a bit more about how it fits into the larger family. Especially since people talk about it All The Time. ("People" being, now that I think about it, mostly FiL. And other people talking with FiL.) And ... I'm around a lot more guitars and other non-uke-y stringed things than ukes. And I will one day (soon, probably) need to learn to read chords off guitar fingers.
Thank you so much!
- Wendy
Oh, and "flattened 4th" ... very funny! (I was trying to think in what key that would be a 4th. )
Next time FiL asks, you can tell him that you're playing a 4 by single coursed chordophone in asymmetrical, close, re-entrant tuning.
So does a tenor guitar equal a baritone uke when it comes to the seasons? What thinketh the seasoned seasonistas