Bluewaterpig
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Hey guys,
I'm a guitar tech slowly stepping in to the world of ukuleles. I was given a beautiful ukulele to setup and I'm having trouble. The scale length is 17", which makes it a tenor if I'm not mistaken (disregard this if I'm correct, but tenor ukes are tuned with the same G-C-E-A re-entrant tuning, right?). The frustrating part is that this thing has bridge pins instead of the normal nylon tie-through bridge. On top of that, it has friction tuning pegs...
This thing has been nothing but a headache for me. From the tension on the bridge pins to the tension on the friction tuners, it's one giant tension nightmare. There's gotta be a somewhat simple answer here.
Aside from tracking down a set of nylon tenor uke strings with ball ends (which may or may not exist for all I know), what's the best way to go about getting this thing strung up and tuned?
I'm a guitar tech slowly stepping in to the world of ukuleles. I was given a beautiful ukulele to setup and I'm having trouble. The scale length is 17", which makes it a tenor if I'm not mistaken (disregard this if I'm correct, but tenor ukes are tuned with the same G-C-E-A re-entrant tuning, right?). The frustrating part is that this thing has bridge pins instead of the normal nylon tie-through bridge. On top of that, it has friction tuning pegs...
This thing has been nothing but a headache for me. From the tension on the bridge pins to the tension on the friction tuners, it's one giant tension nightmare. There's gotta be a somewhat simple answer here.
Aside from tracking down a set of nylon tenor uke strings with ball ends (which may or may not exist for all I know), what's the best way to go about getting this thing strung up and tuned?