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Other Stuff => Guitars => Topic started by: tubesornothing on January 28, 2009, 10:53:21 am

Title: Odd acoustic - 3 pairs of strings
Post by: tubesornothing on January 28, 2009, 10:53:21 am

A friend dropped off a 3/4 size acoustic guitar to be re-strung.  Sure it has six steel strings, but they are in 3 sets of pairs - like a 12 string is 6 sets of pairs.

What they hey is this? What strings do I use to restring it?  What tuning?

thanks bucklets (yep, bucklets - thats a new word  - now open to the public domain).

ToN

Title: Re: Odd acoustic - 3 pairs of strings
Post by: tubesornothing on January 28, 2009, 10:57:14 am

Oops, spoke too soon.  The guitar is called a Tres from Cuba.  They took a classic guitar and put on a different bridge and re-notched the nut.


http://salsablanca.com/ethno/instruments/cuban-tres/

Title: Re: Odd acoustic - 3 pairs of strings
Post by: billcreller on March 10, 2009, 10:08:43 pm

That's really interesting. Amazing that few people know of that instrument, with Cuba not being that far away for a couple of hundred years.