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Black Tabak as a 4-stringer #1

Posted by Rand Moore on January 15, 2011 at 2:34am

Here's the first rendition of my Black Tabak CBG, It was originally a 4-stringer tuned G-D-gg. But some songs use string 2 and I didn't like the sound of a pair of strings switching to a single string for low notes, so I added a 5th string so I could tune it G-DD-gg. The Bass G string is mainly used as a drone. It is diatonically fretted with nylon tie-wrap frets. It plays pretty nicely now. The bridge was also replaced as it caused the strings to be positioned too high off the neck. It currently uses a bolt for a bridge.

4-stringer, Black, Tabak, dulcimer, stick

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