I am new here, so I hope this is not a foolish question.
I am a mandolin player and recently decided I'd like to try playing nylon strings, so I strung a ukulele with nylon strings tuned in fifths. It has become my favorite instrument, great for Celtic. Only trouble is that the body is smaller than I'd like.
Question: are there 4 nylon string guitars tuned in fifths? Maybe nylon string tenor guitar or a 4 string classical that can be tuned in fifths? Are strings available?
Your experience is appreciated.
I've never come across them.
That's not to say you can't experiment with a regular nylon string guitar - take off the highest and lowest strings and see what you can achieve - tune the lowest string to G, the next will stay at D, tune the G up to A and replace what is now the highest string with the high string you took off and tune it back up to the E it's built for and there you have it.
Don't spend a lot of money at the start - charity shop guitars make ideal experiment material because you're not paying full price. Don't get a steel string guitar and try to replace the strings with nylon, though - you won't hear anything.
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Alan:
Thank you for the reply.
I was hoping that there was an Irish or Peruvian or some other kind of guitar variant that would fit the bill. But experimenting is not a bad thing - I'll probably learn something. I appreciate the suggestion.
Best,
Reggie B.
