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    Default High Strung and Nashville Tuning

    I'm learning a song that is played in "high strung open B." I've ordered the D'Addario high strung string set but I'm not sure what open b means. How do you tune a high strung/nashville tuned guitar to open B?

    Also, can you use a regular acoustic guitar with nashville strings? Do you have to make any modifications or do you just put the strings on?

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    All I know is it is:
    B F# B F# B D

    It involves replacing the wound E, A, D and G strings with lighter gauge strings to allow tuning an octave higher than standard.

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    These sorts of tunings make me wish I had about 50 guitars...

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    Quote Originally Posted by parseeker View Post
    ... can you use a regular acoustic guitar with nashville strings? Do you have to make any modifications or do you just put the strings on?
    Yes.

    I've now & then re-strung my Guild D40 Nashville, but just standard tuning. No special set, just all plain steels for these 5: 1/E .010, 2/B .013 or .014, 3/G .009 or .010, 4/D .012 or .013, 5/A .016 or .017; and an electric nickel wound .024 or.026 for 6/E.

    No adjustment needed because I've strung my acoustic 6's xtra light ( .010-.047) to make going back & forth with electric 6's strung .010-.046 fairly seamless. But if you string the acoustic as most folks do, .012-.053, you may have to tweak the truss rod/neck relief.

    Most useful application is the one Nashville studio cats concocted it for back in the stone age 1950's and thus the name: to double a 'normally strung' acoustic 6 part in a recording, overdubbing with a 2nd track.

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    Always good to see you posting, wingsdad!
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    What wingsdad said. A sort of spacious 12-string effect for thickening up Nashville backings. Check the gauges on a 12-string set for the ones you need, parseeker.

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