Baritone Lavas on A 19" Scale Kamaka

peterbright · Mar 14, 2015

What a difference. The original black strings in reentrant tuning compared to standard Baritone tuning and the Lavas is like night and day. The original strings sounded fine but are no match tone wise or volume wise for the Lavas. There is some squeaking from the two wound strings that I must work upon.

chuck in ny · Mar 14, 2015

peter i have to ask how the long neck tenor plays, as a baritone. i had emailed the factory, and the lady asked casey, and he felt the long neck tenor should not be tuned as a baritone. i would assume this is because of small body size.
please tell all.

peterbright · Mar 14, 2015

Sounds great to me but I was looking for something different when I bought it.

mm stan · Mar 14, 2015

I assume you'd have a much more depth and volume with the lava and tuning...

peterbright · Mar 14, 2015

mm stan said:
I assume you'd have a much more depth and volume with the lava and tuning...

Yes I do. Tension is a bit low however. I may tune it up a step.

wayfarer75 · Mar 14, 2015

I like the Lavas much more than the Kamaka strings on my pineapple; I just put them on a couple days ago. There is a similarity in sound from both on a soprano (traditional, punchy, percussive), but there's more volume from the Lavas, that's for sure. The Kamaka strings really seem to muffle the instruments, but I've only tried out Kamaka's soprano scale ukes.

Baritone Lavas on A 19" Scale Kamaka

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