captbaritone
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I live in a neighborhood with a two hour limit on parking. For reasons that are too complex to explain here, I move my car every two hours during the day. These outings serve as welcome breaks throughout my day, and I generally take my ukulele with me and get a little playing in as I walk down the street.
I live in San Francisco, so the weather is pretty tame, but it is generally cold enough outside to need a jacket of some sort, and we keep our tiny apartment pretty toasty My observation is on the effects that this temperature change has on my ukulele's tuning.
By the time I have been outside a few moments, the low C string on my ukulele is about a half step sharp, and the E string is about a quarter step sharp. Now I assume that all of the strings are being effected, but apparently the thicker strings are contracting more than the thinner strings. Or, now that I think about it, the higher strings are expanding more than the thicker strings. (I can't be sure which strings are changing, as I only know that the instrument is out of tune with it's self).
Anyway, for what it's worth, this has been useful for me to learn, because it allows me to know how to know which strings to re-tune and which way to tune them.
I live in San Francisco, so the weather is pretty tame, but it is generally cold enough outside to need a jacket of some sort, and we keep our tiny apartment pretty toasty My observation is on the effects that this temperature change has on my ukulele's tuning.
By the time I have been outside a few moments, the low C string on my ukulele is about a half step sharp, and the E string is about a quarter step sharp. Now I assume that all of the strings are being effected, but apparently the thicker strings are contracting more than the thinner strings. Or, now that I think about it, the higher strings are expanding more than the thicker strings. (I can't be sure which strings are changing, as I only know that the instrument is out of tune with it's self).
Anyway, for what it's worth, this has been useful for me to learn, because it allows me to know how to know which strings to re-tune and which way to tune them.