Long verison:
I've been increasingly interested in the ukulele lately from youtube videos and other people around my, and my interest has lead me here. I stumbled across this site while looking for my first ukulele. I ended up getting a Kala KA-S from musicguymic on ebay. I've had it since Monday and I've just noticed as problem, I don't know if the instrument is faulty or if I'm doing something wrong. The intonation is really bad. If I tune each string to it's exact pitch it will be perfectly in tune when I play it open. But if I play a G chord the high g string and g note on the e string are noticeably out of tune. I then fixed this problem by tuning them to each other. Now I'm stuck with g and e perfectly in tune and c and a are perfectly in tune, but c and e are really out of tune. I apologize for the big wall of text as my first post but help would be very appreciated.
Short version: G and E in tune, C and A in tune, C and E not in tune.
I've been increasingly interested in the ukulele lately from youtube videos and other people around my, and my interest has lead me here. I stumbled across this site while looking for my first ukulele. I ended up getting a Kala KA-S from musicguymic on ebay. I've had it since Monday and I've just noticed as problem, I don't know if the instrument is faulty or if I'm doing something wrong. The intonation is really bad. If I tune each string to it's exact pitch it will be perfectly in tune when I play it open. But if I play a G chord the high g string and g note on the e string are noticeably out of tune. I then fixed this problem by tuning them to each other. Now I'm stuck with g and e perfectly in tune and c and a are perfectly in tune, but c and e are really out of tune. I apologize for the big wall of text as my first post but help would be very appreciated.
Short version: G and E in tune, C and A in tune, C and E not in tune.