I've played around with my guitalele and its tuning quite a bit. I will spare you all the details, but I have found the following to work well. The guitalele is meant to be tuned adgcea. Eventually, I recognized that adgce is pretty close to adgbe. I tuned down the c string, and tried some guitar music, and it sounded good. So, I took off all the strings, and set the high a string aside. I put the e string first, the c string second, and so on. I tune the c string to b, and get a fresh low e string from a classical guitar set, and tune that to e on the 6th spot. Lo and behold, a nice sounding eadgbe tuning on the guitalele, and all the strings except number 6 are at or very near normal tension.
The main reason for doing this is my desire to play classical music, and all the resources out there seem to be geared to that tuning. So, I will play guitar music on my guitalele, and Uke music on my Kala Longneck, and all is well in my little corner of the musical world!
I know some folks have desired to do this, and I tried eadgbe on the strings as they normally are, but they were just too loose. This set up seems to fix that.
take care,
Tom
The main reason for doing this is my desire to play classical music, and all the resources out there seem to be geared to that tuning. So, I will play guitar music on my guitalele, and Uke music on my Kala Longneck, and all is well in my little corner of the musical world!
I know some folks have desired to do this, and I tried eadgbe on the strings as they normally are, but they were just too loose. This set up seems to fix that.
take care,
Tom