Recent content by Ruukie

I compared Aquila Thundergut strings and Pyramid copper wound strings on a Tenayo UBass with a bit of "rappers delight" and "everytime you go away". For my ears and feel, there is no good or bad, they are just different and both have their own qualities:

Hi Mike, surely I had to change something to the bridge. Without big efforts I extended scale to 510 mm by positioning the nut beyond its original position: An additional compensation was done to the nut with another 6 mm difference between G and E-string: Still not perfect, but satisfactory.

Hi there, I made a short video using my DIY U-Bass. It was made of a Dimavery UK-300 baritone ukulele, which got new tuners, a tailpiece, new nut/saddle, and a simple piezo underneath the top. As I got it, it was strung with regular strings from a standard 5-string bass (BEAD) tuned to EADG...

Why not posting a german song here :) One of my favourite love songs these days, played with multiple instruments, among them ukuleles too: Composed by Gerd Baumann, from the motion picture "Sommer in Orange".

I had a bit of birthday feeling ... so why not making a video while having fun. Hoping you'll have some fun too. :)

In English known as "Peat Bog Soldiers" this is the original german version called "Die Moorsoldaten". It's a song from prisoners of the Nazi concentration camp Boergermoor in World War II, written in 1933. For detailed background information please see...

A dark song about a murderer. I hope it's dark enough when played with a ukulele:

Here you will find a tutorial/lesson on the picking for that song: Have fun!

I had a lazy sunday and time to make an new saddle from bone. Here's the difference: Left old, right new. The choirs are closer now, and the choirs are better separated. Easier to play => even more fun :)

Here's a photo of mine: Actually not a problem, but could have done better ;) With bigger hands, I would install another saddle.

Hello, I got a used OU28T 8-string ukulele and want to give a short review/introduction. Made of mahagony laminate, all quite simple but good. It got easy going closed tuners. Intonation appears perfect, string action is quite well. Mine was equipped with Aquila strings. The string pairs are...

An old song but still true. Played on a Kiwaya KTS-4. Enjoy!

I'm lucky to have four different ukes for comparison at home. So I made a video to share. The ukes are: Big Island Honu traditional - Koa Koalana CK - Sapele (mahagony) Koaloha KCM-00 - Koa Moana CK-200 - Maple Those are all solid wood ukes, recording and string conditions were the same for all...

My version of "Nature Boy". Sung by so many, meanwhile a Jazz standard, I was told. I never heard the song before I grabbed it from the german ukulele chat board. A very nice song :)

Great ukulele etudes to be found at ukulele101.co.uk, absolutely worth the 10 pound, excellent typesetting with scores and tabs. Here is a sample of etude no.2 (I'm just the player, not related to the composer :rolleyes: ) Have fun!