There was a thread recently about what it means to have a ukulele open up.
I know the theory that the vibration of the top overtime will eventually make the ukulele sound better. This may be true to some degree, most things work better after you put a couple of miles on them.
My personal theory is that the longer you play a ukulele the more the player adapts to the instrument.
Without even thinking about it, as you become more acclimated to a specific instrument you intuitively find the best way to play it. So what folks think is the instrument opening up is really them learning the best way to play the instrument.
An example of this is, I always pick with my finger nails. When I cut my nails and play with my finger tips it sounds bad until I adapt my playing then is a day or so I sound similar to before I cut my nails.
Bottom line, my experience says that an instrument opening up has way more to do with the player adapting to the instrument and less to do with a physical change that takes place in a ukulele that gets played a lot.
I know the theory that the vibration of the top overtime will eventually make the ukulele sound better. This may be true to some degree, most things work better after you put a couple of miles on them.
My personal theory is that the longer you play a ukulele the more the player adapts to the instrument.
Without even thinking about it, as you become more acclimated to a specific instrument you intuitively find the best way to play it. So what folks think is the instrument opening up is really them learning the best way to play the instrument.
An example of this is, I always pick with my finger nails. When I cut my nails and play with my finger tips it sounds bad until I adapt my playing then is a day or so I sound similar to before I cut my nails.
Bottom line, my experience says that an instrument opening up has way more to do with the player adapting to the instrument and less to do with a physical change that takes place in a ukulele that gets played a lot.