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A question for string mavens, the Gotaukulele article lists the Seaguar sizes for various high g ukuleles.
Anyone know what size low g would be for soprano/concert and tenor?
Thanks!
I've posted this elsewhere on UU, the D'Addario EJ99TLG has the best unwound fluoro low-G I've played, which IIRC is 0.041" in diameter. Most unwound low-G strings in other sets are 0.0358" which I found to be be tubby in tone and lots of intonation issues (sharp more than 7 cents, which I cannot play because this offends my ear).
I've experimented with some cheap 'Vicious Salt' brand 100# (0.0415") and 120# (0.0433") fluoro fishing leader ($7 ea. for a 15 yd spool on ebay) for a low G and while the intonation issues were resolved, I did not like the tension, as it felt out of balance (much tighter) than the rest of the strings, and also due to the tension had significantly less sustain than the other strings, which if your uke sounds boomy, might actually solve a problem for you.
For low G, I will use either a Thomastik-Infeld CF30 chrome flatwound classical guitar string, or a Fremont Soloist smoothwound low-G, OR in a pinch, a D'Addario NYL030 classical guitar string (which I then attack with some 250 grit sandpaper to make smooth, but it removes all of the silver-plated coating, which exposes the copper wrap wire and is prone to oxidation and turns green in the summer time due to the humidity) and yes, I absolutely DETEST string/finger noise on wound strings.
DownUpDave mentioned in another thread about using and enjoying the Oasis smooth wound low-G which I suspect is likely to be somewhere near 0.030" diameter and give ~11-12 pounds of string tension in order to intonate acceptably well on a tenor uke.