fretie
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I switched to a Worth Brown low G set of strings on my tenor yesterday and Boom, Boom, these babies can belt it out!
This weekend we are having Peter Luongo’s MaxUke workshop here in the lower mainland and his recent email suggested we bring along a tenor and it would be preferable if it had a low G.
Now I am usually a soprano player and I have played a high G for years. I did recently get a tenor so I could hear myself play in our rather rambunctious ukulele circles. The tenor, strung high G, sounded like a volume-dialed-up soprano and I liked that.
Last night I took the newly strung, now low G, tenor to the uke circle and felt that low G rumble right through the body of the instrument and into my bread basket! Wow’sa, what a difference! It was as if the uke was amplified.
Funny thing was that I rather missed the sweet and unquie chime sound of the re-entrant tuning that I am used to.
Will I leave the low G on after the weekend workshop with Peter Lunongo? The strings are a brand new set so, yes, I think I’ll leave them on for a while but, geez, it will take some adjusting to hear that rolling boom coming from the top string!
How about you, can you relate, have you had a similar experience when switching g strings on a uke?
This weekend we are having Peter Luongo’s MaxUke workshop here in the lower mainland and his recent email suggested we bring along a tenor and it would be preferable if it had a low G.
Now I am usually a soprano player and I have played a high G for years. I did recently get a tenor so I could hear myself play in our rather rambunctious ukulele circles. The tenor, strung high G, sounded like a volume-dialed-up soprano and I liked that.
Last night I took the newly strung, now low G, tenor to the uke circle and felt that low G rumble right through the body of the instrument and into my bread basket! Wow’sa, what a difference! It was as if the uke was amplified.
Funny thing was that I rather missed the sweet and unquie chime sound of the re-entrant tuning that I am used to.
Will I leave the low G on after the weekend workshop with Peter Lunongo? The strings are a brand new set so, yes, I think I’ll leave them on for a while but, geez, it will take some adjusting to hear that rolling boom coming from the top string!
How about you, can you relate, have you had a similar experience when switching g strings on a uke?