Already posted on "Banjo Hangout":
I play Scottish/Shetland/Irish etc on GDAE tenors and mandolin.
I have a 23" scale tenor banjo, a short scale 19+" tenor banjo and a 23" scale tenor guitar.
My question is:
If I wanted to play one of the 23" instruments for a while with a capo on the second fret (due to current reach difficulties), but wanted to keep it in GDAE, would it work to put on a set of strings that sound lively enough on the short scale banjo, and tune it FCGD before capoing?
Would the tension then be about right to give a decent sound? I've tried tuning the existing strings down and then capoing up, but the sound is dull.
I'll get round to trying a set of the short scale strings (E = .013) in a few days, but would appreciate any comments in the meantime.
cheers
Bren
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