First of all, thanks for the kind words on the strings. I used to play a lot of Baritone when I had time to play, and this was one of my two favorite tunings.
I agree - it's confusing to try and sort out all the options.
Options - GOOD! Confusing - BAD!
I've mentioned it before - we're working on a new website. It's turned out to be a lot more work than I'd thought, and we keep having these hurricane things that slow up the process. When it finally goes up (soon I
think), it wil have
even more options! That's what you really should want from a string supplier. Obviously "one size doesn't fit all".
What we also hope to do, however, is cut way back on the "confusing" part. No need to tell me the current site is poorly organized, and a lot of the string sets have names that make no sense. It was pointed out to me rather forcefully by the wonderful instructor Glen Rose that I had seemingly done all I could to have made these strings inaccessible to most buyers. He and kimo are good friends, and kimo was the one who explained some of the idosyncracies of our site to Glen. He strongly suggested I get kimo to write the new site!
As you see above, kimo's background as a teacher is evident. He sums up a lot of what we are about in a few short lines. I, on the other hand, would prefer to do it in a few pages. Nonetheless, I think the new site will be an improvement, The strings must be awfully good, as we continue to sell a lot of them in spite of the shortcomings of our "sales presentation".
Just the same, I think I can offer a bit of clarity on this thread. The string set being discussed is our "Heavy Gauge Ukulele Set". And oh, BTW, when the new site goes up, there will be another option on this set as well.
Since a lot of Baritones are
very heavily built by traditional ukulele standards, in this tuning, some will benefit from a bit more power in the bottom end. We'll have another version of this set with a wound 3rd string. After all: One Size - BAD!