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And now for something completely different: Terz guitar. That is taking a short-scale guitar, using light strings, and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. Short scale Rickenbacker instruments are perfect for this treatment. When I have the occasion to play terz, I restring my 320 with a regular set of 9's (but still with a wound 17 or 18 G string so I don't have to reintonate the saddle) and crank up the tuning to get a unique clear, chimey tone that can slot some brightness into a mix, but be its own voice: not 12-string, not Nashville tuning, not mandolin, not ukulele. 9's pulled up to terz tuning have about the same tension as 12's at regular pitch on a 320/325, so no tweak of the truss rod is necessary.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz_guitar

iiipopes wrote:And now for something completely different: Terz guitar. That is taking a short-scale guitar, using light strings, and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. Short scale Rickenbacker instruments are perfect for this treatment. When I have the occasion to play terz, I restring my 320 with a regular set of 9's (but still with a wound 17 or 18 G string so I don't have to reintonate the saddle) and crank up the tuning to get a unique clear, chimey tone that can slot some brightness into a mix, but be its own voice: not 12-string, not Nashville tuning, not mandolin, not ukulele. 9's pulled up to terz tuning have about the same tension as 12's at regular pitch on a 320/325, so no tweak of the truss rod is necessary.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz_guitar

Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.

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iiipopes wrote:And now for something completely different: Terz guitar. That is taking a short-scale guitar, using light strings, and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. Short scale Rickenbacker instruments are perfect for this treatment. When I have the occasion to play terz, I restring my 320 with a regular set of 9's (but still with a wound 17 or 18 G string so I don't have to reintonate the saddle) and crank up the tuning to get a unique clear, chimey tone that can slot some brightness into a mix, but be its own voice: not 12-string, not Nashville tuning, not mandolin, not ukulele. 9's pulled up to terz tuning have about the same tension as 12's at regular pitch on a 320/325, so no tweak of the truss rod is necessary.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz_guitar

Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.

No, I am not good with that sort of thing. Sorry.

iiipopes wrote:

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iiipopes wrote:And now for something completely different: Terz guitar. That is taking a short-scale guitar, using light strings, and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. Short scale Rickenbacker instruments are perfect for this treatment. When I have the occasion to play terz, I restring my 320 with a regular set of 9's (but still with a wound 17 or 18 G string so I don't have to reintonate the saddle) and crank up the tuning to get a unique clear, chimey tone that can slot some brightness into a mix, but be its own voice: not 12-string, not Nashville tuning, not mandolin, not ukulele. 9's pulled up to terz tuning have about the same tension as 12's at regular pitch on a 320/325, so no tweak of the truss rod is necessary.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz_guitar

Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.

No, I am not good with that sort of thing. Sorry.

Scott, tears for the terz demo. I will search for one online.

Couldn't you just capo the guitar at the third fret and see what that sounds like?

scoobster28 wrote:Couldn't you just capo the guitar at the third fret and see what that sounds like?

Here is a nice video on the Terz Guitar. I think a capo on the third fret would not work for me. Interestingly the demonstration includes a capo on the Terz.

These videos areof a 12-string Reverie model made by Yamamoto. Tsuneyuki makes two different versions, one normally tuned to G, the other to A. I am sure he could make a 6-string version if requested. I have played one of these in 2015 when I visited him at his home, after buying my MS-12 from Eric Schoenberg's shop in Tiburon.





https://yamamotoguitar.com/models/

jps wrote:These videos areof a 12-string Reverie model made by Yamamoto. Tsuneyuki makes two different versions, one normally tuned to G, the other to A. I am sure he could make a 6-string version if requested. I have played one of these in 2015 when I visited him at his home, after buying my MS-12 from Eric Schoenberg's shop in Tiburon.





https://yamamotoguitar.com/models/

Amazing instrument and beautiful tone and playing Jeffrey. They are much mellower than I might have imagined. Thanks for these nice links.

Yeah the RIckenbacker 320 is actually "Terz" in Sizing so it makes a nice Jangling Terz Guitar.

iiipopes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:09 pm ... and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. ...

Ummm ... by my reckoning, a guitar in standard tuning, capoed at the third fret, would be voiced as G-C-F-Bb-D-G .... as I missing something here?

doctorwho wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:21 am

iiipopes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:09 pm ... and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. ...

Ummm ... by my reckoning, a guitar in standard tuning, capoed at the third fret, would be voiced as G-C-F-Bb-D-G .... as I missing something here?

Some folks do things backwards. Or maybe they play a right-handed guitar upside down?

jps wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:04 pm

doctorwho wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:21 am

iiipopes wrote: ↑Fri Feb 28, 2020 12:09 pm ... and tuning it up three frets to G-D-Bb-F-C-G, as if you took a regular guitar and played it capo'ed at the 3rd fret. ...

Ummm ... by my reckoning, a guitar in standard tuning, capoed at the third fret, would be voiced as G-C-F-Bb-D-G .... as I missing something here?

Some folks do things backwards. Or maybe they play a right-handed guitar upside down?

Aha ... perspective ... a "my left is your right" thing ... I guess I hang out with too many vampires to have thought to look at it in a mirror!

Really?

"Earth humor ... Arr Arr."

doctorwho wrote: ↑Tue Jan 02, 2024 2:03 am "Earth humor ... Arr Arr."