Must be hella complicated to play! Is there a standard tuning for the Stick, or do people tune them differently depending on the sound they want?
There are various tuning options, depending on the player's preference. I ordered mine with standard tuning:
BASS STRINGS (from center of neck outward): rising 5ths
C, G, D, A, E
MELODY STRINGS (from center of neck outward): rising 4ths
F#, B, E, A, D
The fifths tuning of the bass strings takes some getting used to, if you're used to playing guitar or bass (typically tuned in 4ths) but you can play open-voiced chords a lot more easily in that tuning.
If I make it to the end of the year without lapsing again, I'm going to replace these 15-year-old strings and retune to "baritone melody" which will eliminate the high D string and add a C# string below the F# on the melody side. The method book I got with the instrument is by Greg Howard who seems to prefer that tuning and wrote the book's exercises to use it.
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