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Joined: January 2003 Posts: 1498
Location: San Bernardino, California | Yesterday I converted a 12 string from the normal octave/double course to double course only: I.E. 2 low Es, 2 low As, 2 low Ds, 2 low Gs, 2 Bs, 2 Es. It does have a VERY full sound to it. (No it wasn't an Ovation). |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 18
Location: blkyn usa | Guitarango? :confused: |
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Joined: November 2002 Posts: 1196
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana | BruDev-o-Caster? |
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Joined: August 2002 Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee | Call it toast ... with that much string tension on a non-Ovation sumpthins bound to come flying off. :D |
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Joined: January 2003 Posts: 1498
Location: San Bernardino, California | I've currently got it strung with two sets of .008s, I intend to try .009s in a few days. |
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Joined: August 2003 Posts: 4619
Location: SoCal | Ok, not an Ovation. What guitar is it? |
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Joined: March 2002 Posts: 1380
Location: Central Oregon | It is the Mother of All Twelve Strings!!
Saddam |
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Joined: October 2003 Posts: 44
Location: Richland, Washington | When you were tuning it did it blow out the bridge? Talk to Nils about his epoxy system. (inside joke...) |
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Joined: January 2003 Posts: 1498
Location: San Bernardino, California | It's an electric: a Dean Boca 12 |
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Joined: May 2002 Posts: 3005
Location: Las Cruces, NM | Call it the Voltiac XII, and post OSHA warnings all around it as a "flying parts area". |
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Joined: February 2002 Posts: 5750
Location: Scotland | That's a lot of tension for the neck, even if your're tuned down. Hope it's a guitar your not precious about. Call it a Bajo-warpo. Mexican double course guitars (known as Bajo Sexto or Bajo quinto) use some doubled rather than octave pairs, though they are tuned differently to regular guitar. The top 3 strings are an octave lower than guitar & paired, the lower 3 are the same as regular guitar but the other string is an octave lower rather than an octave higher, which produces much lower tension. One of the tunings for bajo sexto is EADGCF. |
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Joined: January 2003 Posts: 1498
Location: San Bernardino, California | I KNOW: Bajo Bruce-No-O |
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