The best part about this is, for a beginner - who more than likely will not be taking lessons (I only say this as guitar instructors generally don't recommend toy guitars for beginners) - it allows music to be made immediately as placing fingers across the strings and strumming automatically creates somewhat musically pleasing sounds. A personal favorite is Open D (DADF#AD), but you could easily do any variation of a major or minor chord to great success. An open tuning is simply a tuning where the strings are tuned to a more pleasant sounding chord. If the child is truly a beginner they may also benefit from an open tuning. However we're also making the child use steel strings so the pain factor may be two-fold. We're already dealing with less than half of the normal tension of a guitar that may be just enough. The lower the tension on the strings, the more "comfortable" it is to play with the child develops callouses.
The number one concern for children learning guitar is the pain experienced by pressing down the strings. Keep in mind the audience as well these are for small children. With that said it looks like E standard tuning (EADGBE) is safe on a small guitar like you have but ultimately the bracing on the soundboard of the guitar will determine how much tension it will allow. 75" less than a standard Gibson scale length, it's much closer to a standard-sized guitar. With a 16" scale length that tension is drastically reduced to about 4 or 6 lbs of pull on each string.Īdjusting the scale length of a typical set of strings will easily allow you to see what the effect is on a 24" scale length. The tensions of each string hover between 11 and 16 lbs of pull for each one. The left-most chart shows you normal tensions on a normal set tuned to E standard (An extremely common 6-string guitar tuning). This tool can show you something like this nylon string chart I just created: Disclaimer: it is a solicitation for D'Addario strings but the specification of the strings can be matched identically for your purposes with a bit of measurement. If you want to get nerdy about it, D'Addario makes a great site called which could help you out. The "uncoiling a bit just at the tuning machine" is almost always a tell-tale sign of improper installation of a string. However, I'm wondering if the strings were properly installed: You could tune-up the strings, or slacken them even more but be aware of the limitations of the stock strings as they will have a point in which they begin to sound "not good" due to the lack of tension on the string.
You have quite a bit of play room here, considering the scale length is much shorter than a standard guitar. What should I try on a 25" guitar (16" string length)? How about a 36" (24" strings)? Clearly my fault, I gave her the money back and I'll get another string for it and tune it properly.Įither she lost the instructions or there were none I didn't see any information on the packaging.įor my future reference, how should I tune this instrument? What octave and pitches should I use? Upon doing some research online I saw several different tunings. I managed to overtension one of the strings and it sprung, uncoiling a bit just at the tuning machine. We were both impressed with the tone, which belied the childish coloring. Me, with my music degree, figured I can do this, so I restrung it and started tuning it up.
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I sold one today and the customer brought it back an hour later, unsure of how to string it, since one of the strings had come out of the tuning machine. It's 25" long, open string length is 16".
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One of the guitars we stock is the Janod "Confetti" series guitar. I have a toy store, where we try to get decent kids instruments among other things.
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