How to Tune a Bajo Quinto

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  • How to Tune a Bajo Quinto.
    The N track tuner is a good free app I used for intonation and getting cents and hertz readings. Those low notes were hard to pick up though!
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  • @ChrisEbbrsen
    @ChrisEbbrsen หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Did not know these even existed. Wonderful variety. Thank you!

  • @petset77
    @petset77 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I got one of these on ebay perhaps 25 years ago, just because it was pretty. ...I never knew how to tune it, so thanks!!

  • @chucksguitarshop
    @chucksguitarshop 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Brilliant Beau! I have loved these for years but know little about them. Thank you for posting this 🙂

  • @benleydon
    @benleydon ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So tuned very much like an Oud - showing the Moorish influence on Spain perhaps.
    Like how the Phrygian scale is essentially the maqam Hijaz

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That makes sense. I should read up on instrument tuning migrating across the world. I love these instruments!

  • @charlessalkewicz3216
    @charlessalkewicz3216 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Beau, Found: n-Track Studio in Microsoft store and nothing close in Apple store. Is n-Track Studio the one you are using?? Your videos are the BEST!! Chuck Salkewicz Weeki Wachee, FL

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks 😊 It’s just “N-Track Tuner” in the App Store (it’s free). Maybe is only for iOS? Any tuner will work - I like this one just cuz it shows the Hertz and Cents which I use for intonation :)

  • @neilfradenburgh
    @neilfradenburgh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wait til you try to tune a Mexican jarano. Eight strings in 5 courses. Center three courses are pairs, outer ones are single strings. Tunings are regional and last count has about 83 variations. Fun time trying to figure out string diameters, then choose a tuning. ;-)

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hahahahha- argh- I make these tuning video so I can look up this video next time I get one of these in hahahhaha

    • @neilfradenburgh
      @neilfradenburgh ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m a slow learner, but finally did learn to make an audio clip of the tuning when I’m handed one of these many Latin American instruments.

  • @WilldJsla
    @WilldJsla 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    i have the same bajoquinto, and my strings buzz like crazy, why is that?

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Could be too low an action and/or no neck relief.

  • @DjDoggDad
    @DjDoggDad 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    F3, C3, G2, d2 D3, a1 A2

  • @dennisboyce813
    @dennisboyce813 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That´s a good looking bajo quinto somewhat plainer in design than most. Did you recognize the back and side wood, I didn´t get a good look at it?

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi- I can’t remember what the back n sides were but I did another longer video about installing a pickup in this and when I see the footage I will be about to tell (and the brand of it which I also can’t remember!)

    • @dennisboyce813
      @dennisboyce813 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I saw the H. Jimenez name at the end of the fretboard and it turns out that he has a website. It looks like the model that you have is called El Patrón and it´s described as being spruce and mahogany. Thanks for showing the tuning.@@BeauHannamGuitars

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dennisboyce813 that’s it! Thansk

  • @mokbrute
    @mokbrute ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hi Beau, do you have any recommendations on finding decent machine heads for bajo quinto/charango? I'm struggling to find any that are not cheap Chinese rubbish.

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi. I’ve never bought Bajo Quinto tuners. I just had a quick look and the only ones I saw looked on the cheap end. You could use individual tuners too instead of 5 on a plate

    • @mokbrute
      @mokbrute ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fair enough, thanks! @@BeauHannamGuitars

  • @patrickniedermeyer2112
    @patrickniedermeyer2112 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have you calc'ed the total tension that holds. Must be a tank! And who's the maker of this one? I just came across a similar instrument in the basement of a shop in Omaha and didn't know what it was.

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  ปีที่แล้ว

      I forget what brand it is but I recorded another video with this (I think I glued the bridge on??) and I talk about it in that video which I will edit one day. I have the tension written down someone but can’t remember- you can look up the strings and add up the tensions.

    • @mikevasquez195
      @mikevasquez195 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is an H Jimenez Bajo Quinto

  • @DBK415
    @DBK415 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Do the strings break easily?

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’m not sure as I didn’t have it long enough but I’d say no more then any other guitar

  • @RockStarOscarStern634
    @RockStarOscarStern634 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I could use the Bajo Quinto to play Hatikva

  • @UlisesMontero-f2e
    @UlisesMontero-f2e 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I tried putting it to 196hz and my string snapped 😂

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UlisesMontero-f2e strings can do that! 😤

  • @RockStarOscarStern634
    @RockStarOscarStern634 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It's in Fourths & it's alot like a 10 String Baroque Guitar that's been strung w/ Steel Strings.

  • @totallyregia
    @totallyregia 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    bajo quinto is an invention of Mexicans already the name is BAJO means base.. and a convination with a guitar .. in order to be play along with an acordeon in a norteño Song... and you can still hire a band of three or two mexicans guys to play a "FARA FARA"...at your party in a very afforable price. specially in Monterrey Mexico

  • @lewisbons2503
    @lewisbons2503 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Mine is about to be ripped off from the neck after one year of playing. I knew it was a cheap one

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is a lot of tension on these!

    • @lewisbons2503
      @lewisbons2503 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BeauHannamGuitars I know, and the repair is 60 bucks. I’m Mexican but was the first one I could afford because they are ridiculously expensive

  • @jaybond0919
    @jaybond0919 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You have no idea what you talking about Mein☝🏼🇲🇽

  • @RockStarOscarStern634
    @RockStarOscarStern634 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Actually the 3rd String is G2 at 98 HZ not G3.

    • @BeauHannamGuitars
      @BeauHannamGuitars  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oops! Thanks

    • @RockStarOscarStern634
      @RockStarOscarStern634 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BeauHannamGuitars I'd imagine that if you had installed a pickup & plugged the instrument into the tuner, that would've helped. Most Bajo Quintos & Bajo Sextos have magnetic pickups that sit below the strings inside the sound hole.