My background: About 20 years ago I played classical guitar for about two years, and I sing recreationally by ear. I bought my own first ukulele (a Kala Concert) about 10 days ago after plunking around on a borrowed instrument for a short while.
As soon as I heard about it, I knew right off that I was interested in the low-G tuning, for it's deeper sound (okay, more like the classical guitar). So a couple of days ago, after I had my Kala for a week, I took it back to the music store where I bought it and asked the technician there to re-string the high-g to a low-G.
The open string sounds fine when tuned, but when I play any fretted chord like an F, it sounds... off. I thought that maybe after a week of playing, I just wasn't used to the low-G sound and that I'd get used to it. But I haven't. Tonight I played a few single plucked notes on the G string with my chromatic tuner (blue Snark) attached and darned it I wasn't right.
What should be an A (2nd fret, right?) is off-tune; on the tuner, the A is displaying 3-5 yellow bars beyond (to the right of) the vertical blue in-tune bar. Likewise any major notes further up like B and C.
This is not true on the other strings -- when plucked as single notes, they're all in tune.
Is it just me? Or do I need to take my ukulele back to the music store and get them to look at this new string?
New thought: or is the tuner out-of-whack? I just noticed three "Pitch Cal" buttons on the back.
D. Hrynkiw
As soon as I heard about it, I knew right off that I was interested in the low-G tuning, for it's deeper sound (okay, more like the classical guitar). So a couple of days ago, after I had my Kala for a week, I took it back to the music store where I bought it and asked the technician there to re-string the high-g to a low-G.
The open string sounds fine when tuned, but when I play any fretted chord like an F, it sounds... off. I thought that maybe after a week of playing, I just wasn't used to the low-G sound and that I'd get used to it. But I haven't. Tonight I played a few single plucked notes on the G string with my chromatic tuner (blue Snark) attached and darned it I wasn't right.
What should be an A (2nd fret, right?) is off-tune; on the tuner, the A is displaying 3-5 yellow bars beyond (to the right of) the vertical blue in-tune bar. Likewise any major notes further up like B and C.
This is not true on the other strings -- when plucked as single notes, they're all in tune.
Is it just me? Or do I need to take my ukulele back to the music store and get them to look at this new string?
New thought: or is the tuner out-of-whack? I just noticed three "Pitch Cal" buttons on the back.
D. Hrynkiw