70sSanO
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Whenever I am in the San Diego area I always make a point to stop in a Moze Guitars in La Mesa. In additional to having a nice selection of new and used guitars and amps, they also sell ukuleles. One of the brands of ukuleles they sell is Fred Shields, who is a local luthier.
On this particular trip, I happened to see something odd… a 3 string ukulele. I had never seen one before and I ended up buying it.
It uses the less the possessive and more tolerant “Dog Has Fleas” tuning as opposed to the exclusive “My” dog. A 3-string uke also ends any indecision on whether to use linear or re-entrant tuning.
While playing it, I discovered something fairly remarkable. You can still get a nice ukulele sound without all of the “D” and “E” chord headaches that haunt some people. My wife has wanted to learn to play, but some chords have stopped her from enjoying the process. I am hopeful that this will be a good place for her to begin.
As for me, I’ve played finger style with melodies built around semi-open chords for years. This has been good in some ways, but it has been a long time since I actually just strummed chords for any length of time. This little 3 string is actually a lot of fun to just sit and strum and it does make chording even easier.
I found this clip on Fred Shield’s website…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqztq0t8Gg
John
On this particular trip, I happened to see something odd… a 3 string ukulele. I had never seen one before and I ended up buying it.
It uses the less the possessive and more tolerant “Dog Has Fleas” tuning as opposed to the exclusive “My” dog. A 3-string uke also ends any indecision on whether to use linear or re-entrant tuning.
While playing it, I discovered something fairly remarkable. You can still get a nice ukulele sound without all of the “D” and “E” chord headaches that haunt some people. My wife has wanted to learn to play, but some chords have stopped her from enjoying the process. I am hopeful that this will be a good place for her to begin.
As for me, I’ve played finger style with melodies built around semi-open chords for years. This has been good in some ways, but it has been a long time since I actually just strummed chords for any length of time. This little 3 string is actually a lot of fun to just sit and strum and it does make chording even easier.
I found this clip on Fred Shield’s website…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmqztq0t8Gg
John