Terz Guitar
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Terz Guitar
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
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terz_guitar
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Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.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
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No, I am not good with that sort of thing. Sorry.admin wrote:Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.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
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Scott, tears for the terz demo. I will search for one online.iiipopes wrote:No, I am not good with that sort of thing. Sorry.admin wrote:Scott do you have any soundbytes of this short-scale with the unique tuning.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
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Re: Terz Guitar
Couldn't you just capo the guitar at the third fret and see what that sounds like?
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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.scoobster28 wrote:Couldn't you just capo the guitar at the third fret and see what that sounds like?
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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/
https://yamamotoguitar.com/models/
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Amazing instrument and beautiful tone and playing Jeffrey. They are much mellower than I might have imagined. Thanks for these nice links.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/
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Re: Terz Guitar
Yeah the RIckenbacker 320 is actually "Terz" in Sizing so it makes a nice Jangling Terz Guitar.
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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?
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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!jps wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 1:04 pmSome folks do things backwards. Or maybe they play a right-handed guitar upside down?
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Really?
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"Earth humor ... Arr Arr."
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