Bought a 4 string tenor off the internet for roughly £250 (new), and have restrung it with D'Addario Irish Strings and tuned it GDAE, but I have noticed that the low G-string sometimes (quite frequently) pops out of the bridge, and it is rather annoying and results in me having to re-tune the banjo. Is this a normal-occurence, or is it rather a defect?
Thanks
That slot in the bridge needs to be a bit wider. Your G string is a lot stouter than the C that slot was made to fit.
Or deeper is needed. A folded piece of sandpaper should do the trick There is more tension on the fourth and first string to pop back toward the middle so they need to be a tad deeper. Angle the slot so it drops slightly toward the tailpiece. banjered
Thanks very much,
I'll do just that, thanks for the advice.
new banjo bridges are not too expensive [stu-mac, etc] buy a couple if you want to keep your present banjo 100%a orig. if you screw one up you are still OK- And some brands of ITB strings vary greatly in size and Guage. If you don't like the ones you have and want to expand your ITB choices extra bridges are a good thing.
That's not a great set of strings for most tenor banjos. Let us know your scale length and I can recommend gauges for you. Also, the cut off piece of the string is the perfect file for the slot.
