Still, it’s good to properly set up any banjo you’re going to play in GDAE, so it sounds its best. If you’re buying used, these modifications may already have been done. They will need modification, most notably on the nut and bridge. Many modern tenors, especially those marketed as “Irish tenor banjos,” are specifically built for GDAE tuning.
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Many Irish players end up preferring 19 fret banjos, particularly professional players who want the extra punch and volume that comes from higher tension. The shorter scale length of 17 fret banjos compounds that issue, and it’s harder to get a decent tension without very thick strings. However, GDAE tuning is already lower than most tenor banjos are designed for. This does give small hands an easier reach up to high B. There’s a common misconception that Irish tenor players prefer 17 fret banjos over longer-scale ones. This has made it popular beyond Irish music, especially with mandolin players looking for a different sound. You also get a lower range than CGDA, with a nice growl on the low G string. With GDAE tuning, popular folk music keys like G, D, C, and A are easy to play in. Overall, though, most tenor banjo strummers look to other, higher tunings like CGDA or Chicago tuning. Higher-tension strings and fiddling with the tension on the head can fix some of those issues. However, the low tuning does often sound muddy or hollow on the tenor banjo. Melody playing is straightforward in fifths tunings like GDAE. Played an octave down from the fiddle and mandolin, most Irish tunes fit very easily under the player’s fingers. GDAE mirrors the tuning of that classic Irish instrument, the fiddle. That’s because Irish music has taken up the banjo quite readily. Celtic, U.K.While CGDA is technically the standard tenor banjo tuning, you may end up running into GDAE more when you meet other players.Jazz/Blues Variants, Bossa, Choro, Klezmer.
In fact, it's just a little bit louder than my A-jr and has quite a pleasant tone with an interestingly different quality from either a mandolin or a uke or a banjo. It strikes me that this may be the perfect application for this string set - it's not as quiet as a uke played single note and it's not as obnoxiosly loud as a banjo mandolin. I've done this with a few wooden ukes in the past (including my bowlback Baroq-ulele), but not with a banjo uke before. I currently have loan of a banjo ukulele, which I've set up in GDAE tuning today using the Aquila nylgut set for fifths tuning at the request of the owner (who doesn't play uke and has had this one sitting around for many years).
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