Post by Tony Ravenscroft on Feb 10, 2024 7:10:42 GMT -6
The world is a smaller place due to standardization.
A guitar is going to have a scale length of 24.75" or 25.5"; if for some reason it's shorter, that's obviously a toy for kids, and (at best ) questionably made, possibly unplayable. If it has steel strings, the neck is probably about 43 mm at the nut. For a vast swath of time, a guitar had six strings, period -- sure, now you see seven or sometimes eight, but how many four-string tenors have you seen even now, let alone five?
A bass guitar? Four strings; two decades ago, even a five-stringer was rare. And it's always tuned EADG, until a few weirdos like me reworked ours to BEAD. Anything less than a 34" scale length was probably a toy. Width at nut, almost all range between 38 mm and 44 mm.
And, of course, if it looks like a mandolin, and it's not a ukulele, then it has four courses with two strings in each.
So, when these popped up on ShopGoodwill.com, I was delighted to see them.
And, yes, the second one is a tiple.
A guitar is going to have a scale length of 24.75" or 25.5"; if for some reason it's shorter, that's obviously a toy for kids, and (at best ) questionably made, possibly unplayable. If it has steel strings, the neck is probably about 43 mm at the nut. For a vast swath of time, a guitar had six strings, period -- sure, now you see seven or sometimes eight, but how many four-string tenors have you seen even now, let alone five?
A bass guitar? Four strings; two decades ago, even a five-stringer was rare. And it's always tuned EADG, until a few weirdos like me reworked ours to BEAD. Anything less than a 34" scale length was probably a toy. Width at nut, almost all range between 38 mm and 44 mm.
And, of course, if it looks like a mandolin, and it's not a ukulele, then it has four courses with two strings in each.
So, when these popped up on ShopGoodwill.com, I was delighted to see them.
And, yes, the second one is a tiple.