• Registered: 2010-09-08
  • Posts: 6

Topic: help please for tenor guitar

I play the ukulele (GCEA tuning) and recently purchased a Martin LXM Tenor (4 string) guitar because I read online in various places you can tune a tenor guitar to GCEA.  It has real strings on it, not nylon like my uke.  I tried to tune it to GCEA with the strings it came with and it sounds AWFUL.  I am guessing I need different strings, but do not want the nylon ones.  I called Martin twice and they are of no help. I have searched online for direction to no avail. I can't be the only uke player to want to graduate to a tenor guitar with the same tuning (and non nylon strings).  Can any one please help?

  • From: Tooele Ut
  • Registered: 2006-03-04
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Re: help please for tenor guitar

I just read at this site that GCEA tuning the G is one octave lower.  Does that help?  And it says find books for tenor banjo, which is tuned the same way.  Good luck.
http://www.tenorguitar.com/glance.html

http://www.tenorguitar.com/what.html

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  • From: U.S.
  • Registered: 2007-01-24
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Re: help please for tenor guitar

bensonp wrote:

I just read at this site that GCEA tuning the G is one octave lower.  Does that help?  And it says find books for tenor banjo, which is tuned the same way.  Good luck.
http://www.tenorguitar.com/glance.html

http://www.tenorguitar.com/what.html

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  • Registered: 2009-11-16
  • Posts: 605

Re: help please for tenor guitar

You ccan tune it DGBE and play guitar cords als.

  • Registered: 2010-09-08
  • Posts: 6

Re: help please for tenor guitar

Thank you for your help, I'll give it a go and let you know!