TurismoDreamin
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I'm a newbie to the forum and ukulele's in general. A little background on me: I originally bought my very first uke...a Lanikai soprano LU-21 with some money I got for Christmas. I taught myself how to play and loved it. Now, a few weeks later, I returned to the only music store in my town that sells ukulele's (which is where I got my soprano) and as of tonight, I am the proud owner of a new Lanikai concert CK-C uke. They even threw in a case for a discounted price for being such a loyal customer.
Here's where the problem comes in...I tested it out at the store and everything sounded perfect. I get home and started playing and now, there's buzzing like you wouldn't believe. It's driving me crazy, because I spent a pretty decent amount on this one.
The buzzing sounds the most pronounced near the nut, and I've only really noticed it with the C and E string. It occurs when I play open strings as well (if I strum slightly harder than normal). The buzzing disappears when I play any higher than the 3rd fret...but continues with the C string until I reach the 7th fret in which case, the buzzing disappears on that particular string. As a beginner, most of the songs I play use the lower frets and it is very frustrating to have to deal with this inconvenience. I've done business with this store before and it's a great store, but they are closed at the moment and do not accept returns.
This uke was on a Lanikai display along with about 10 other ukes and I was thinking that maybe it had been there long enough to wear it out with everyone wanting to pick one up and play or mess around with it. So I was thinking I would start with a string replacement and go from there...
My questions:
What do you think could be causing this problem?
What suggestions do you have for a quality string replacement with this specific uke?
Any other comments are also more than welcome.
Here's where the problem comes in...I tested it out at the store and everything sounded perfect. I get home and started playing and now, there's buzzing like you wouldn't believe. It's driving me crazy, because I spent a pretty decent amount on this one.
The buzzing sounds the most pronounced near the nut, and I've only really noticed it with the C and E string. It occurs when I play open strings as well (if I strum slightly harder than normal). The buzzing disappears when I play any higher than the 3rd fret...but continues with the C string until I reach the 7th fret in which case, the buzzing disappears on that particular string. As a beginner, most of the songs I play use the lower frets and it is very frustrating to have to deal with this inconvenience. I've done business with this store before and it's a great store, but they are closed at the moment and do not accept returns.
This uke was on a Lanikai display along with about 10 other ukes and I was thinking that maybe it had been there long enough to wear it out with everyone wanting to pick one up and play or mess around with it. So I was thinking I would start with a string replacement and go from there...
My questions:
What do you think could be causing this problem?
What suggestions do you have for a quality string replacement with this specific uke?
Any other comments are also more than welcome.
