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Bajo Sexto


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Anyone here got experience with a Bajo Sexto? For those who don't know, it's a 12 string instrument, looks a bit like a 12 string guitar but tuned down an octave and with the 1st two courses tuned C and F rather than B and E.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bajo_Sexto

I'm thinking of getting one to use in a duo with an acoustic Guitarist so I can combine Bass with some chord work. I'd be tuning the first 2 courses down a half-tone to B and E.

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Playing solo bass on them doesn't work too well. The bottom courses are tuned in octaves (like a twelve string or a bouzouki) and it's the octave string you hit first with the pick so it doesn't sound as bassy as you'd expect.

Keeping it in it's traditional tuning makes for some interesting chord voicings the shapes of which are easily transferred across the strings.

Have fun.

Steve

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