Re: Looking to buy first stick
WerkSpace wrote:
Here's a cool chart that shows the five Melody strings with Standard tuning.
Just a point of clarification, there are many "standard" tunings for The Stick, including Matched Reciprocal, Baritone Melody, even Mirrored 4ths. SE doesn't favor one over the other by calling it the "standard".
That specific tuning, the one you refer to, is called the Classic tuning, and has been called that for well over a decade on the website.
If you are trying to string a guitar to be comparable in pitches to these notes, then you need to take into account that the scale is much shorter, which means that the gauge you would use will be slightly heavier than on a long scale instrument tuned to the same pitch by the nut.
I'm sure folks were trying to be helpful when they provided the gauges Emmett recommends for the Stick, they just didn't know the difference between long and short scale.