The Twelve String Guitar

This is mainly a vocal accompaniment instrument, long used by Folk artists like Leadbelly (Huddie Lead better). It has a characteristic, jangly sound of it's own which you may or may not find attractive. The sources of it's different sound are the twelve strings, which are grouped in pairs, as on a Mandolin, the bottom four pairs tuned in octaves with one thick and one thin string side by side. This means that what would sound as a single note on a normal guitar is automatically doubled up on the Twelve Stringed Instruments.

The intervals of the tuning are the same as for the standard 6 string guitar, so that the normal fingering for the scales and chords shapes can be used. However, the pitch is normally four semitones lower, which means that the usual fingering for an E major chord produces as C major sound. For this reason the tuning given below is known as the C tuning. This guitar is totally different from another Semi Acoustic Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, and an Electric Guitars. This guitars consists of various different parts itself, going for the vocal class is very suitable with this, because this guitar is mainly used for vocal practices. Mentioning other guitars have their own major tone which is some how similar with this made guitar.

C TUNING FOR 12 STRING GUITAR

1st pair C (Unison)

2nd pair G (Unison)

3rd pair Eb (Octave apart)

4th pair Bb (Octave apart)

5th pair F (Octave apart)

6th pair C (Octave apart)