![]() Nobody really knows where the name "tenor" banjo came from. Irish players often tune their tenor banjos also in fifths, but one octave below a violin/mandolin (G, D, A, E).Ī tenor banjo is a short necked banjo that has 4-strings. This relates to the tenor banjo because standard tuning for a tenor banjo is tuned the same as a viola/mandola (C, G, D, A). Their tunings from the lowest note to the highest is:Ĭello/Mandocello = C, G, D, A (an octave below the viola) The mandolin family copies these tunings in fifths: ![]() In western music, the four main instruments in the string family all have a symmetrical tuning.Īll except the bass are tuned in fifths. A symmetrical tuning is a tuning that has the same musical interval between each string. The tenor banjo is tuned using a symmetrical tuning.
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