When I bought my mahogany Tiny Tenor 2nd hand, I did my customary fifths tuning thing, removing the 2 bass strings and replacing them with my usual choices, and tuning the 2nd string down to D. Worked beautifully. Until the A string recently broke, and I replaced it with what I had on hand - a fluorocarbon from an Oasis set. Not beautiful at all! It's completely out of balance with the other strings now, and feels too tense and thin under my fingers.
Problem is, I have no idea what the ones that came on this instrument were. They're white, and they're thicker than fluorocarbon, have lower tension and seem to work really well on this instrument. I hate to go experimenting by buying various different sets of strings to try, when I know I'll only ever use the upper half of the set (assuming I like them in the first place) and toss out the lower two strings. I'd kind of prefer to make the perfect educated guess the first time. Anyone have ideas what strings to try that would be lower tension and thicker?
Oh, and by the way, what are other people with Tiny Tenors using for strings? I'm curious. I was surprised that a fluorocarbon 1st string gave me such a negative tactile and sonoral reaction in this instance, as I've used them on other tenors with better results.
bratsche
Problem is, I have no idea what the ones that came on this instrument were. They're white, and they're thicker than fluorocarbon, have lower tension and seem to work really well on this instrument. I hate to go experimenting by buying various different sets of strings to try, when I know I'll only ever use the upper half of the set (assuming I like them in the first place) and toss out the lower two strings. I'd kind of prefer to make the perfect educated guess the first time. Anyone have ideas what strings to try that would be lower tension and thicker?
Oh, and by the way, what are other people with Tiny Tenors using for strings? I'm curious. I was surprised that a fluorocarbon 1st string gave me such a negative tactile and sonoral reaction in this instance, as I've used them on other tenors with better results.
bratsche
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