Chris D
Member
I see a thread here about someone who's got some uke strings & it says on the packet they're for BF#DA tuning...(?)
(By the way, I use ADF#B tuning on uke, with regular GCEA strings)
Is it normal for uke tunings to be spelled out in a certain order?
It gets confusing when folks spell the tuning the other way round...
Or is there an actual "BF#DA" tuning?
Coming from guitar, it's normal to spell out a tuning starting out with the lowest note,
eg: EADGBE=standard tuning, DADF#AD=open D etc...
For guitar newbies this is confusing because the 6th string comes first in the tuning, if you see what I mean...
Then I got into steel guitar & a lot of "traditional" steel players spell out the tuning high-to-low, which is kinda confusing for folks who've come to steel guitar from regular "armpit guitar".
It's got so that on steel guitar forums where tunings are discussed (and tunings are discussed a lot) people will specify "high-to-low" or "low-to-high" whenever they spell out a tuning to avoid confusion.
Also, how come folks don't spell uke tunings like:
gCEA for re-entrant C tuning, GCEA for low C tuning with a low G...?
(To me this seems easier than having to specify "re-entrant" or "low G")
(By the way, I use ADF#B tuning on uke, with regular GCEA strings)
Is it normal for uke tunings to be spelled out in a certain order?
It gets confusing when folks spell the tuning the other way round...
Or is there an actual "BF#DA" tuning?
Coming from guitar, it's normal to spell out a tuning starting out with the lowest note,
eg: EADGBE=standard tuning, DADF#AD=open D etc...
For guitar newbies this is confusing because the 6th string comes first in the tuning, if you see what I mean...
Then I got into steel guitar & a lot of "traditional" steel players spell out the tuning high-to-low, which is kinda confusing for folks who've come to steel guitar from regular "armpit guitar".
It's got so that on steel guitar forums where tunings are discussed (and tunings are discussed a lot) people will specify "high-to-low" or "low-to-high" whenever they spell out a tuning to avoid confusion.
Also, how come folks don't spell uke tunings like:
gCEA for re-entrant C tuning, GCEA for low C tuning with a low G...?
(To me this seems easier than having to specify "re-entrant" or "low G")