How would you acheive these tunings on shorter scales, like ukelele scale lenghts??? Can you get a dulcimer type of tuning on short scale strummers? What strings would you use there? Thanks...
A few weeks ago I finished my first three-string CBG. It has a piezo and a 500k log volume pot. If hooked up to my Vox mini 5 amp, it performs really good, but after 5 minutes or so, it starts bu...
fingers or a slide. Every string has one finger that connects it to the next. When you tune your guitar G D g low to high and strum all six string s with no fingers, you’re playing a G chord (...
I would appreciate your help with the cbg I want to build. I know that piezos are "hot" pickups. But, what I would like to do with this build is to install a piezo in both the neck and bridge pos...
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Hello, Thank you for all the tabs, I am new to 3 string, Loving it. I am looking for tabs or instructions to " Unchained Melody" Would you have? or where" thank you George
In reply to John laccohee-Joslin. John, if you click the image in this article, it should download ...
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I am building your Country Roads Banjo and I would like to put in Piezo Pickup. My question is where to place it (backside of the sound board or under the head of the tambourine). I would appreci...
I have spent quiet some time in Russia and have never been able to walk past anyone playing one of these instruments. I have spent my life involved in music, i taught for fifteen years which was ...
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It is my understanding that any repurposed goods on which the brand trademark is clear/visible could be under scrutiny in this regard. Power to the creative souls who will continue to save clothi...
Follow-up question: should I attach a piezo to a resonator guitar? And, if it's ok, where should I place the pickup?
Zero Frets – How and Why to Use Them on Cigar Box Guitars
I'm using this to play on my diddley bow, which has regular threat markers. Apparently diatnoic just means it skips the half-tones (flats and sharps) so in other words, a full C could be 1, a ful...
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