provines
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I just bought an old banjo uke right here on UU's marketplace. Physically, it looks great. It has new Aquilla Banjo strings on it. It sounds terrible. If I tune it to GCEA and put my tuner on it, it gets sharp instantlly as I go up the fretboard. Now, it could be a turkey and that explains why it looks so good after 80 years; no one played it because it sounded terrible. Or, it needs to be tuned differently. I haven't done the research yet and thought I'd start here. Would different tuning improve this uke? I know the uke wasn't always tuned GCEA and I bet the original design of this uke didn't take this into consideration. Any insight?
I just want all you UU'ers know that leftovermagic84 stood up and offered to buy this uke back from me if I wasn't happy with it. Magic is a stand-up UUer. This is what UU and ukes are all about; classy good folks. I'm proud to be a part of this family.
I just bought an old banjo uke right here on UU's marketplace. Physically, it looks great. It has new Aquilla Banjo strings on it. It sounds terrible. If I tune it to GCEA and put my tuner on it, it gets sharp instantlly as I go up the fretboard. Now, it could be a turkey and that explains why it looks so good after 80 years; no one played it because it sounded terrible. Or, it needs to be tuned differently. I haven't done the research yet and thought I'd start here. Would different tuning improve this uke? I know the uke wasn't always tuned GCEA and I bet the original design of this uke didn't take this into consideration. Any insight?
I just want all you UU'ers know that leftovermagic84 stood up and offered to buy this uke back from me if I wasn't happy with it. Magic is a stand-up UUer. This is what UU and ukes are all about; classy good folks. I'm proud to be a part of this family.
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