Super excited and wanted to share my just-peeled-the-plastic-off-new 8-string baritone! After playing a Guild baritone and discovering it pairs great with my flavor of finger-style, I traded up to this 326ce yesterday. Still learning new harmonic rolls, different ways to hit the paired courses, and such-- the lower register and pairs have been creatively inspiring. I don’t see a way to upload a short sound clip here, but if that’s possible and anyone is interest, lmk. Cheers!
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Fucking love my 8 string baritone. There are a lot of videos on YT. The best part is that while the extra strings take a little bit of getting used to, you can mostly just pick it up and play it like it was in standard tuning. I have a lot of fun playing around with familiar tunes, pitched lower.
Awesome! What kind of 8-string do you play? The taylor is definitely easier to pick up and play like a normal guitar. I think a big part of that is the closer spacing of the paired courses. The guild model set them farther apart, which made hitting individual harmonics a lot easier. I’m going to play it a few weeks at this point, but I’m already considering replacing the saddle to have a slightly wider spacing on the paired strings.
I would love to hear it!
pm’d you a short clip! :)
Nice! Is it the 3rd and 4th strings that have the doubled courses? And how are you tuning it?
Correct and thank you! I’ve been mostly playing A E A D E A (dadgad, but lower). I’ve been toying with minor modifications (a fav so far is the first string down half a step to g#) though.
What a beauty! What’s the scale on the neck and what tuning do you run it at? Never played an acoustic baritone but I bet it’s hell on your calluses.
Thanks! 27in is the scale length according to taylor’s website. It’s definitely easier than the jumbo Guild baritone, which I think was 27"–but yes, both of them are devastating on calluses compared to standard guitar. Actually, I mostly play mandolin these days and still baritone is quite a bit more difficult on my fingers.
The action is slammed down (lowered saddle & truss rod) to the point it buzzes a bit with a pick, but it plays like butter. I might loosen the rod tension a bit once I’m more comfortable with it.
B E A D F# B is “standard”, although I’ve been mostly playing in open A tuning: mainly A E A D E A (dadgad, but lower) and more recently A E A D E G#.
Color me interested but I have no idea how you’d post a clip. I’ve always liked the idea of something between bass and guitar.
Sending you a pm w/ a couple of links if you’re still interested!
