Fermin
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Aloha, fellow forumers!
As some of you may know, where I live there is not a lot of variety of anything uke related. There is one store that carries some D'addario strings, but not all the different ones. And that's where it ends.
I went there to get a new string set and the only thing they had "for a soprano" was a Concert set of Black Nylons.
I do like the way they sound, but I feel like I want to try more before I settle. Furthermore, in a couple of months I will receive two new ukes I'm having made.
My brother lives in the US (in L.A.) and I think I'll ask him to bring me a few strings sets of different kinds when he comes for the holidays.
String choice is very personal and dependant on the sound you want, I know that, but what strings would you say "have to be tried"? My ukes are a spruce top/walnut back and sides soprano, mahogany concert, and acacia koa tenor (all solid wood; I intend to string the tenor with a low G).
On the soprano I had tried Hilos, which I wasn't particularly fond of, and two different brands of classical guitar nylon strings (the ones it came with, I believe were D'addarios, sounded pretty good, but I later tried Medina Artigas and they were a bit too plincky).
Thanks for all the recommendations!
As some of you may know, where I live there is not a lot of variety of anything uke related. There is one store that carries some D'addario strings, but not all the different ones. And that's where it ends.
I went there to get a new string set and the only thing they had "for a soprano" was a Concert set of Black Nylons.
I do like the way they sound, but I feel like I want to try more before I settle. Furthermore, in a couple of months I will receive two new ukes I'm having made.
My brother lives in the US (in L.A.) and I think I'll ask him to bring me a few strings sets of different kinds when he comes for the holidays.
String choice is very personal and dependant on the sound you want, I know that, but what strings would you say "have to be tried"? My ukes are a spruce top/walnut back and sides soprano, mahogany concert, and acacia koa tenor (all solid wood; I intend to string the tenor with a low G).
On the soprano I had tried Hilos, which I wasn't particularly fond of, and two different brands of classical guitar nylon strings (the ones it came with, I believe were D'addarios, sounded pretty good, but I later tried Medina Artigas and they were a bit too plincky).
Thanks for all the recommendations!