So my first tenor guitar arrived yesterday: a BR-40T. Love at first sight. She's a beauty, for sure. This is the first time in my life I've held a guitar and felt like I knew what I was doing (despite some guitar lessons as a kid). It's awesome.
So I got her out of the box and started tuning her up, and SNAP went the A string before I made it to G#. Gave me a nice little scratch. Luckily I'd picked up a couple of spares, but now I can't seem to get it up past G. I can barely move the tuning peg, and of course now I'm paranoid that it'll snap again, which is making me hesitant to push it.
For the meantime, I've got her tuned to an open C (CGCE), which is fine, but I'd prefer to get her to CGDA eventually. Right now I'm using a .010, which is what it came with, so I know it's theoretically possible. But I'm contemplating going down to a .009.
What do you think, Cafe? Will I be less stressed out about tuning if I do this?
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