Hello!
As an octave mandolin, Irish bouzouki, and mandola player, I typically spend 99% of my time in the CBOM forum. However, a need for some advice has brought me over to your lovely corner of the Mandolin Café!
For a few years, I've possessed a Lark in the Morning tenor guitar (LTG100-N) that I've seldom played. The string/scale length is 25¼", give or take a bit, and I'm not sure where I obtained the strings that are currently on the instrument. Tuning them to GDAE (like my OM) they're so taught that I think it'll collapse! Set at CGDA - as I know they're supposed to - the strings are pretty sloppy and the C buzzes and jangles more than I think it should.
It's time for my yearly order from juststrings.com and I wondered if anyone here had any advice. The aforementioned has standard sets from D'Addario, John Pearse, and La Bella, but I don't know whether they're best for the scale length of my instrument, which would seem to be a bit longer than the typical 21-23". Maybe a custom set made up of singles? (The guitar uses standard ball-end strings.)
Cheers!
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