It's not at all inconvenient for me to do this, having the guitar not being played for about 26 hours, but am I doing all of this unnecessarily? With their unique look and revolutionary approach, Aquila have risen to the challenge and produced another excellent string set which resolves the age old problem of ‘density versus string gauge’ and come up with fantastic results. Pros: Everything - they feel nice and they are a good tight gauge so they are loud and responsive to a strummer and a picker.

To optimise the performance of Red Series strings, differing percentages of copper powder are used in each individual string, resulting in varying gradients of light to darker red across the strings. It was also helpful to have a strap button put on the end so I could play with the neck at a proper angle. Hi, I’m Harrison, and my team and I use Student of Guitar to share all we are learning about the guitar. Regardless, if you really want to have a steel string instrument tuned A to A, then you may be looking for a piccolo guitar which is exactly that!They also had ballends which is a convenient advantage when restringing a Kanile'a with a pin bridge. A travel guitar is likely more worth the extra cash if you really need that guitar sound and E tuning on the go.

And the short answer is that I only recommend putting extra light steel strings on a guitalele regardless of tuning (and that’s only if your instrument has a truss rod). So on your GL1, they would likely give you a bit lower tension ADGCEA or possibly allow you to tune a little higher is you wanted. You can play guitar songs on a guitalele as the guitalele strings are tuned in the same intervals, however, you need to be aware that the guitalele is tuned the same way as a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret.OK, so I'm a relatively new owner of a Yamaha GL-1 Guitalele, and while the factory strings didn't wow me, I played them long enough to get acquainted with the instrument. I tried today what seems to be the best solution : a set of normal tension savarez (red card, I presume), from E to B tuned to A, D, G, B, E plus a Hannabach silver special high tension C-8 string tuned to low E. And, yes, you're absolutely right : I should have stressed the point that "regular tuning" means "in A" for the guitalele, and "in E" for the guitar.