I've worked out a nice fingerpicky guitar accompaniment to a song (As Sylvie Was Walking, as it happens) and tried recording it last night. It just sounds too much on my guitar, which is quite a bassy instrument. I might borrow my mum's Baby Taylor and try it out on that. But it set me to wondering if there were any lute-like instruments out there that are tuned exactly like a guitar. The closest thing I could think of were those 6-string banjos. Anyone own one? Recommendations? Anyone think of anything similar to that - an instrument you could play exactly like a guitar, but just have a more delicate, smaller, lighter sound that wouldn't be as dominant as a guitar would be?
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