High Strung Guitars

Jim,

Nashville tùning sounds fun, but I've never actually tuned any of my guitars to that tuning, I tend to go for lower tuning, my guitars are tuned half a step down.
Anyway back to Nashville tuning, as I'm sure you know, it's use a lot in recording studios for something called tracking, first recording done with acoustic guitar standard tuning, followed by second recording on top with a guitar tuned to Nashville, to give the impression it was recorded with a 12 string guitar. Why not just use a 12 string guitar in the first place.

Nashville tuning is normal high e and b, with the octave strings from a 12-string set used for the low e - a - d - g...

Yes, there are Nashville string sets - but, if you buy a 12-string set, you'll have strings for 2 guitars... 👍😁

I have enough guitars that I could string one that way... 🤔
I've often thought about doing so - never done it... 🙄
A 12-fret, OM slot-head, spruce over rosewood, or a 14-fret Grand Auditorium, cedar over mahogany?

Jim, I wrote about my pulling my S6 out of retirement to 'nashville' tune it. Might be the thread you remember.

Jim,  Ya, I think you hit the nail on the head of what I was trying to articulate by comparing it to other instruments.  It's not bad at all, it's quite nice, but maybe just not as a solo instrument because of the lack of range.

It's the icing on the cake as it were, but not the cake itself.  I love all those instruments you mentioned, including this Nashville tuned guitar, but maybe just not by themselves.  Of course, there'd be the odd exceptions to that I'm sure as with everything.

The acoustic guitar and the piano in my humble opinion are the two top solo instruments that exist.  (not including any digital stuff when I say that).  But I think a "Nashville tuned" piano (if that were even possible) would leave me feeling the same way as I do about the guitar.     LOL.