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Originally Posted by TelZilla
As I think about this more, it's a chicken and egg situation, right?
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No, it's a physics and engineering situation.
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Say I put a neck on my guitar that was the scale of a bass neck (this is a rhetorical question, of course) and had a .052 string that was long enough to fit the neck. If I tuned it correctly, would it sound like a bass, only quieter? Or is there something about the gague of a bass E string (a .110, say) that is integral to acheiving that particular pitch?
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The lower the pitch, the thicker the string guage has to be to play the open note with
adequate tension.
But this doesn't have to be a theoretical discussion -- you can test it yourself with any electric bass.
The G strings on many basses are .45 or .50 thick. Try tuning the G string down to match the pitch of the low E and see what happens. It'll flop around like a loose rubber band -- just as the G string on your guitar would if you tuned it down to match the pitch of your low E string.
Hope it helps, CS