Cirno - Posted - 09/06/2010:  11:02:33

Is it possible to get a 12 string guitar, remove 2 strings, and tune it to a regular 5 string banjo tuning?

alubin - Posted - 09/06/2010:  11:24:15

Sure, but the lowest course of strings would have one low-G string. Open-G is a pretty common tuning among blues and folk guitarists (low to high: DGDGBD), and you could remove the lowest set of strings. Keith Richards has played electric guitar like this for a long time now.

Gold Tone now makes two 10-string banjos, one resonator and one open back:

goldtone.com/products/details/...-for-2010
goldtone.com/products/details/...-for-2010

I haven't had a chance to play either one yet, but I hear that they play a lot like regular 5-string banjos.

Cirno - Posted - 09/06/2010:  11:57:51

wow thanks for the links. Im planning to buy one of those

RayD - Posted - 09/06/2010:  21:15:28

Heck, I have a hard enough time tuning and playing 5 strings! Playing and tuning 10? NO WAY!! And how would would use Keith tuners on the 2-2 3-3 strings?

Cheers,
RayD

Ronnie - Posted - 09/07/2010:  07:27:25

I wonder if Bela Fleck still has the old 10 string Curtis McPeake built?