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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 365882, member: 55"]Yes. standard tenor tuning is in fifths, C-G-D-A, like a viola; Irish players use that, or tune it lower, to G-D-A-E like an octave mandolin. Most tenor banjos are too short to sound good in the Irish tuning, but it varies; that's the tuning I generally use, and it sounds OK on one of my tenors, but not on the other.</p><p>Some players like it tuned as the top 4 strings of a guitar, D-G-B-E[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 365882, member: 55"]Yes. standard tenor tuning is in fifths, C-G-D-A, like a viola; Irish players use that, or tune it lower, to G-D-A-E like an octave mandolin. Most tenor banjos are too short to sound good in the Irish tuning, but it varies; that's the tuning I generally use, and it sounds OK on one of my tenors, but not on the other. Some players like it tuned as the top 4 strings of a guitar, D-G-B-E[/QUOTE]
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