htb723
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My mind is BLOWN
Well, ...
There are reasons why both instruments exist.
- Sustain will be much, much longer.
- Tone will be deeper and un-ukulele-like.
- If it's a steel-string guitar, the tone will be far too bright.
- It would be best to remove the 5th and 6th strings if you plan to strum it.
- You'd need to change the 4th string if you prefer re-entrant tuning.
- If it's joined at the neck at the 12th fret, then access beyond the 12th fret (7th fret if you count from the capo) will be challenging unless you're trained accordingly.
- It's not as portable.
(Which is why you should get both.)
Slightly OT, but the one that boggled my mind was that a violin is a like an upside down guitar:
Lowest 4 guitar strings E - A - D - G
Violin strings G - D - A - E
So you can actually play guitar chords on a violin if you do them upside down. And of course there's no frets, so intonation is tricky.