Strings for 1/8 guitar?

nobo13 · Mar 17, 2014

Hi everyone,

I went to Toys R Us recently, and found they sell 1/8 guitars for £15 (I'm in the UK.) It's pretty much a 6 string soprano, but I can't seem to find any strings suitable for it.

Does anyone know of some strings I could use, or if any guitar players are lurking, any alternative? Thanks,

Nobo13

SailingUke · Mar 17, 2014

LaBella makes strings for an 1/4 guitar, you might look and see if they have a smaller set.
You are probably going to have a hard time tuning such a short scale to EADGBE.
You will most likely have better results tuning to ADGCEA.

dickadcock · Mar 17, 2014

nobo13 said:
Hi everyone,

I went to Toys R Us recently, and found they sell 1/8 guitars for £15 (I'm in the UK.) It's pretty much a 6 string soprano, but I can't seem to find any strings suitable for it.

Does anyone know of some strings I could use, or if any guitar players are lurking, any alternative? Thanks,

Nobo13

A 1/8 guitar has about a 17 inch scale, like a tenor uke or a guitar-uke, guilele, guitalele ... So guitalele strings should work. It would then be tuned A to A.

nobo13 · Mar 18, 2014

Cheers for that, I will look into that.

Having fiddled with it, it became apparent it's got a scale length smaller than a soprano, haven't measured it but it's definitely smaller.

Would getting steel strings help?

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