Question for real.....

[Ray]

guitar pickers here amongst us......

But first a little background......the lead guitarist of our church's praise band does a subtlety restrained overdriven bluesy zippity-doo-dah in between the singing but there are songs which something more primitive and twangy would be more appropriate. So I was asked to instruct him on the banjo but the problem is I am self-taught and don't play the ubiquitous conventional open g scrugg/reno style. So the guitarist aquires a six-string banjo in hopes that there would be no learning curve what with the same tuning as his les paul. Turns out the low e & a & d are heavy gauged and plunky sounding. So we experimented with lighter strings where the fatter were. Nashville tuning it is called. It is supposed to give a six string banjo the twang of a conventional banjo. Problem is the second string (b) is the same gauge/tuning octave as the old conventional tuning so that b is now oddly lower than the rest and sounds out of place. Which sets up the scenario for my question......

What string gauge/type would allow that 2nd string position tune a whole octave higher b ? Is this even possible ?

Hope to hear from member octagon who hasn't posted since 11 sept. last.

[wecsoger]

Wowsers. That sure is a different question here. (grin)

'Nashville tuning' for guitar, grab a 12 string guitar pack and get the octave up strings for the lower E, A, D.

What you do for a banjo? No idea.

I'd just grab another pack of banjo strings and experiment with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th strings up an octave.

Or maybe the 3rd, 4th, 5th.

[Blaine]

If you can track down Boge Quinn on Facebook or elsewhere, he's surely know what you're talking about.

[Old No7]

Wowsers. That sure is a different question here. (grin)

"What's the difference between a large pepperoni pizza and a professional banjo player?"

This, coming from a keyboard player... And levergunner!

"Only the pizza can feed a family of four!"

Old No7

[samsi]

Q: What's the difference between a banjo player and a skunk, both dead in the middle of the road?
A: The skunk was on his way to a gig!

I'm a Strat guy so I'll leave it at this-
Q: What's the difference between a Stratocaster and a banjo.
A: The banjo has better sustain...