imperialbari
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I had heard the name of George Formby from my late mother, but I only remember one short TV-glimpse of his playing decades back. So I recently read about GF and listened to a number of YouTube samples of his playing, which I find very efficient in driving the music.
One text tells GF used several non-standard tunings, which gave me some ideas for my own ukuleles, which I also want being tuned in different keys. It belongs to the story that a banjo player some thirty years ago told me about the existence of a string plucker’s bible telling the right gauge to pitch relation for just about any imaginable size of instrument.
I have searched the web for string suppliers within the EU and have found some, but having single sets shipped isn’t exactly cheap.
If the said information on good gauges for given pitches were available on the web, then I could imagine buying rolls of strings and cutting them myself according to my actual needs.
Anybody here already using this approach?
Klaus
One text tells GF used several non-standard tunings, which gave me some ideas for my own ukuleles, which I also want being tuned in different keys. It belongs to the story that a banjo player some thirty years ago told me about the existence of a string plucker’s bible telling the right gauge to pitch relation for just about any imaginable size of instrument.
I have searched the web for string suppliers within the EU and have found some, but having single sets shipped isn’t exactly cheap.
If the said information on good gauges for given pitches were available on the web, then I could imagine buying rolls of strings and cutting them myself according to my actual needs.
Anybody here already using this approach?
Klaus