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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
They come out with a Prince model! 
Tadpui
Well-known member
I'm waiting for Ukelele Rig 4 to come out so I can model 200 different ukes. 
CaptGoldenEars
New member
Actually, years ago, i traded my drum machine for one. Glad i did. Forced me to find a real drummer and i learned i don't like Ukelele after all. True story.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Hey how did this get closed? I opened it again. Not the first time I've had to reopen a thread some how they get mysteriously closed.
Must be either a uke hater or lover out there!
Must be either a uke hater or lover out there!
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stevieb
Just another guy, really.
I scored a 1968 Gibson Uke for $10 at a garage sale. It's worth about $600 or more...
Now I wanna learn to play Train's "Soul Sister..."
Now I wanna learn to play Train's "Soul Sister..."
CaptGoldenEars
New member
The experience was good for me. I thought i would make great music with a drum machine. I learned this would not be so. Scratch that idea off. Hence the trading it for what it was worth. Next, i found out a Ukelele is only for smiles and chuckles.
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Jason43
New member
I'm still waiting for a model with high output pickups, paper thin neck and a Floyd Rose.
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Just got a uke for Christmas from my wife last year. Not quite a Prince model, but it is one of the new Fenders, so it's got a Tele headstock. I love the think. And yes, the first song I learned was Soul Sister. The very next (and much better) song I learned was Izzy's Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Just had seen a great Vintage Martin uke at Reto Music in Keene NH.
I did get a bit of a sticker shock though! ☼
☼ Well over a grand!
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thunderstation
New member
I can figure out notes the strings are
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
The ‘ukulele is usually tuned GCEA . The interval distances are: a perfect 4th (G to C), a major 3rd (C to E), and a perfect 4th (E to A).
If you tune your ‘ukulele with a low G string:
Hold the 5th fret of the 4th (G) string. This is an C note. Play this note and the open 3rd (C) string.
The generally accepted standard tuning for the ‘ukulele is G,C,E,A.
Most ‘ukuleles are tuned with a high-G string (re-entrant), but tuning with a low-G string (linear) is a fast growing alternative. An ‘ukulele tuned with the low-G string has a nice, even sound when strummed. It also offers five bass notes that you can’t reach using a high-G string. Low-G string users and abusers.
Slack key: low-G,C,E,G
Baritone: low-D,G,B,E
English tuning: A,D,F#,B or low-A,D,F#,B (same concept as a low-G string).
If you tune your ‘ukulele with a low G string:
Hold the 5th fret of the 4th (G) string. This is an C note. Play this note and the open 3rd (C) string.
The generally accepted standard tuning for the ‘ukulele is G,C,E,A.
Most ‘ukuleles are tuned with a high-G string (re-entrant), but tuning with a low-G string (linear) is a fast growing alternative. An ‘ukulele tuned with the low-G string has a nice, even sound when strummed. It also offers five bass notes that you can’t reach using a high-G string. Low-G string users and abusers.
Slack key: low-G,C,E,G
Baritone: low-D,G,B,E
English tuning: A,D,F#,B or low-A,D,F#,B (same concept as a low-G string).
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Tom Overthere
Member
Man! If I'm understanding your post correctly, ukelele strings must be able to stretch a LOT.
Are you saying the uppermost string (typically tuned as the high G) can be tuned anywhere from a Low A all the way up to a High G? Will it still resonate at the slack A tuning?
My wife brought me a uke from her trip to Hawaii. It's just been sitting there. If I'm understanding your tuning info correctly I 'm about to get busy.
Barrett Tagliarino is a FANTASTIC guitar teacher. Here's a link to his Learn to Play Ukelele book, which is probably as good as his guitar books.
And here's the YouTube seach link for Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole.
Are you saying the uppermost string (typically tuned as the high G) can be tuned anywhere from a Low A all the way up to a High G? Will it still resonate at the slack A tuning?
My wife brought me a uke from her trip to Hawaii. It's just been sitting there. If I'm understanding your tuning info correctly I 'm about to get busy.
Barrett Tagliarino is a FANTASTIC guitar teacher. Here's a link to his Learn to Play Ukelele book, which is probably as good as his guitar books.
And here's the YouTube seach link for Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole.
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WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Mine was a Tenor Uke--came with the bottom G tuned up an octave. While that certainly creates part of the uke's unique sound, the songs I was going after had a low G on the bottom. So I got a couple singles for the bottom to specifically be Low G. (There's no way the High G could drop an octave and still be playable!)
pohaku
New member
Actually, what you do is move the strings around a bit and it will facilitate tuning to low G.
You move the C string to where the G string is. You move the E string to where the C string was. You move the G string to where the E string was. You leave the A string alone.
That gives you the thickest string for the low G (if it is wound, so much the better) and rearranges the rest of your strings appropriate to their relative thickness. This is known as the Brudda IZ tuning. Alternatively, you can just get another C string and replace the G string with it.
You move the C string to where the G string is. You move the E string to where the C string was. You move the G string to where the E string was. You leave the A string alone.
That gives you the thickest string for the low G (if it is wound, so much the better) and rearranges the rest of your strings appropriate to their relative thickness. This is known as the Brudda IZ tuning. Alternatively, you can just get another C string and replace the G string with it.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Nice Ukes Pohaku. 
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Tom Overthere
Member
Actually, what you do is move the strings around a bit and it will facilitate tuning to low G.
You move the C string to where the G string is. You move the E string to where the C string was. You move the G string to where the E string was. You leave the A string alone.
That gives you the thickest string for the low G (if it is wound, so much the better) and rearranges the rest of your strings appropriate to their relative thickness. This is known as the Brudda IZ tuning. Alternatively, you can just get another C string and replace the G string with it.
FANTASTIC. Thanks for the details. Now the concept makes sense to me.
I made the mistake of listening five times to IZ Kamikawiwo'ole's amazing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and now it's haunting me...
YouTube as a tool for good: I found how to play IZ's version on guitar with capo at fret 5. A pretty good interpretation of the ukelele version. IZ LIVES
QUESTION: I have relatively large hands. By any chance, does one of these unique tunings lend itself to more simplified chording to help me deal with the narrow neck?
That's a wonderful picture of "The Girls". You have a beautiful family, pohaku. If you don't mind my asking, in addition to being an attorney, are you an enthnic Hawaiian / Pacifc Islander? Don't answer if you think that's intrusive. It's just that I'm becoming more and more aware of Pacific Island cultures and I like what I'm learning.
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pohaku
New member
Thanks! I now have a bari as well, but it didn't make the family portrait. Everyone should have one . . . or more.
pohaku
New member
Not a problem. Grew up in Hawaii on the Big Island. I'm "hapa" - half Chinese and half Caucasian. Took uke lessons as a child. In Hawaii it was/is the "recorder equivalent" in schools. One of the soprano ukes in the "family portrait" is mine from when I was a child.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
You have any sound clips to offer up here Pohaku?