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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | Good News! ...I just got my baritone. Now I just need to know what notes to tune it to and what kind of strings to use. Anyone know a good string source and the answer to the first question? |
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Location: NJ | It's "designed t'be tuned down to "D", but you you can tune it down to what you want . . .
. . I've tuned it down to as low as B.
I've been using D'Add EJ18's (Heavy) on it.
(get yer fingers "ready" for 'em, tho . . )
g'Luck & HaveFun! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Typically "D" and EJ18's.
To me, the EJ18's feel pretty much like "mediums" on a standard tuned guitar.
Either Cliff normally plays with lites on his standard guitars or he is a wussy. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Cliff is very manly in his string choice.
I just use the normal lite or medium and tune it to D. You can play all the same stuff with a different flavor. Going real low is nice but it's often a whole new instrument and you got to work it all out, and I'm lazy. |
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Location: NJ | Heavy's on the LongNeck.
Light's on the SlotHead.
Medium's on everything else.
Y'don't really "notice" the differnce in Heavy's, until y'go back to a guitar with Mediums on it. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Bill, what did the factory string our 2080D's with?
They feel really good and hold the tuning extremely well. |
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Location: Tennessee | www.juststrings.com has a complete selection of baritone strings if you want to try some out. They are a must if you want to tune down to B or C.
That said, what Beal and Cliff said is the easy way to get bang out of the longneck right away. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | the regular lite guage, 12-52. That's pretty much what I've stayed with. I like going to open D and for that the A,D,G strings go up. The other thing about mine is the fingerboard is flat. Makes slide real easy. That's the second reason I got rid of the one Cliff has. The first is 1&11/16. The third reason is that Cliff really needed it, it looks good on him.
As as side note my baritone National came with something like 16-65 on it. I recently put on 14-58 and tune it to D rather than C or B and it's much more fun to play. It's a 26" scale, not as long as the Ovation. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | A further note. I had put the blue peacock strings on the 2080D a few weeks ago. It looked kinda nice. I just pulled it out to work on the wind song and I have to say, those strings suck on grafite tops. They are still new strings but all the high end was gone. I put on a set of 16EXP and every thing is back to normal. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I had to order baritone strings since nobody carried them. I went to GC in Grand Rapids (1.5 hr drive, but I was going to the airport there anyway) after seeing on the internet that they supposedly carried them. They didn't.
I decided to do a little experiment and order from two local shops which were accross the street from each other. I also ordered a set on ebay. One guy charged me $26.50(a supposed markdown from 29.95. The guy accross the street was $16.50. The internet (Ebay) price was $10.99. Quite a difference huh?
Anyway ... I received a set today and I'm running home to put them on. |
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