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Permalink Reply by JL on January 23, 2018 at 1:23am

If I understand your question then yes.

If your canjo is fretted like a dulcimer with the diatonic scale instead of the chromatic scale of a 'normal git', and the dulcimer tab stays with the melody string and leaves the drone strings to drone, you can play the melody tab on your one string.

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Permalink Reply by Br Harold F Stubbs III on January 23, 2018 at 10:15am

If your 1 string canjo is fretted chromatic ( like a normal git ) then you need to convert the numbers according to the scales... so if the Canjo is tuned to D and the song is in D and expects diatonic scale ( only notes on major scale, so fret 7 is 1 octave above open )

tab note canjo
0    D      0
1    E      2
2    F#    4
3    G     5
4    A      7
5    B     9
6    C#   11
7    d      12

and so on

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