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One of my early stringed instruments was a Yamaha Guitalele, which I used as a beater for years.
I used it to do some experimentation, such as my early attempts at installing an undersaddle piezo.
As I was lowering the action, I went a bit too low and resulted it becoming an unplayable buzz machine..
So then I used the uke to do some experiments, such as installing steel strings on it (electric guitar strings are OK, but cause awful intonation and wear out the soft plastic parts of the instrument).
And whacky alternative tuning (nylon strung EADGBE one octave above guitar).
The high octave EADGBE was indeed an interesting one. I had to shave the saddle down til it was nearly non-existent and the tension was quite strong. But I did get a somewhat "harp" like tone with OK playability.
Unfortuntely the tension was too high for the wound classical strings to handle for long and one snapped.
And so tonight, I decided its time to let this one go as an instrument. I have limited space on my ukulele hanger. But what to do with the body? I don't intend to restore it into a functional guitalele again as I have since purchased a new Oscar Schmidt guitalele that I'm very happy with.
Any ideas of ways to make use of a dead ukulele body?
Google search showed some examples where people have turned guitar bodies into bookshelves, wall ornaments and a pot to grow plants in.. but these ideas don't particularly interest me.
I've been fooling around with the idea of sawing the neck off and turning it into a make-shift bongo drum...
And just now as I search the internet watching random videos, "Brushy One String" came up with videos such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc
And inspired me to make an unofficial "Brushy One String" tribute ukulele:
Maybe I'll even record a cover some day
Any more ideas of what creative things I could do with this broken ukulele (guitalele) would be appreciated!
I used it to do some experimentation, such as my early attempts at installing an undersaddle piezo.
As I was lowering the action, I went a bit too low and resulted it becoming an unplayable buzz machine..
So then I used the uke to do some experiments, such as installing steel strings on it (electric guitar strings are OK, but cause awful intonation and wear out the soft plastic parts of the instrument).
And whacky alternative tuning (nylon strung EADGBE one octave above guitar).
The high octave EADGBE was indeed an interesting one. I had to shave the saddle down til it was nearly non-existent and the tension was quite strong. But I did get a somewhat "harp" like tone with OK playability.
Unfortuntely the tension was too high for the wound classical strings to handle for long and one snapped.
And so tonight, I decided its time to let this one go as an instrument. I have limited space on my ukulele hanger. But what to do with the body? I don't intend to restore it into a functional guitalele again as I have since purchased a new Oscar Schmidt guitalele that I'm very happy with.
Any ideas of ways to make use of a dead ukulele body?
Google search showed some examples where people have turned guitar bodies into bookshelves, wall ornaments and a pot to grow plants in.. but these ideas don't particularly interest me.
I've been fooling around with the idea of sawing the neck off and turning it into a make-shift bongo drum...
And just now as I search the internet watching random videos, "Brushy One String" came up with videos such as this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8H-67ILaqc
And inspired me to make an unofficial "Brushy One String" tribute ukulele:
Maybe I'll even record a cover some day
Any more ideas of what creative things I could do with this broken ukulele (guitalele) would be appreciated!
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