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  Roger Martin November 4, 2009 at 11:56pm

  Way COOL Girl,
  Ok I've been checking out what your doing with the octive pairings for a while now.And if your happy with the sound I will be too I think.
  So,, I'm going to try putting something together similar to what you have here.I'm fully prepared to blame it all on you if I screw it up LOL
  I STILL shake my head in amazement when you post a new build.
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  Diane in Chicago November 2, 2009 at 11:28pm

  I am really happy with the sound. I wanted to do all octave pairings so I could play melody on any of the strings and have it ring out. Twice the sound on just a crappy ol' box. Tinyguitars had a video of one he built this way, it was beautiful. It think the video is gone now. I've done octave pairings before, but not all three pairs. That little .008 string is pretty fragile - I just broke it tonight trying to get to Dd Aa dd'. So C it is.
  
  I'll be honest, I wing my string choices and tunings. In know there are charts and programs that figure this all out, but I've not looked at it that way -- yet. So no reason, that's just how it turned out! But maybe it is time to come at it more scientifically. What strings would you have used?
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  Doug Thorsvik November 2, 2009 at 11:12pm

  Diane, I like the tailpiece design. Just curious as to how the intonation is working out with such low tension of about 9-12 lb per string? How does octave pairing the strings compare tonally with just three strings or four strings with a high unision pairing? I've never seen the lower string as the thicker one on octave pairings except for 8 string basses. I'm just curious as to reason. Doug