Does anyone know where I can buy natural gut strings for a tenor uke? Anyone use them? Can you use natural guy violin strings?
http://www.aquilacorde.com/modern-i...instrument-products/3178/genuine-gut/?lang=enAquila might still sell gut ukulele strings. I saw some for sale (soprano) a year ago, or so. Can't seem to find them now. Hmm... By the way, why?
http://www.aquilacorde.com/modern-i...instrument-products/3178/genuine-gut/?lang=en
could prob email mimmo and ask where to get a set.
Clifford Essex make excellent gut strings that last well. Not sure what shipping to the States would be.
http://www.cliffordessex.net/index.php?_a=viewCat&catId=42
i wont use gut strings for moral reason but just curious if they make gut strings for larger ukes?
ah ok ya ive heard seen them sold in general. Interesting i heard they get very brittleUp to tenor size. Not baritone though.
Does anyone know where I can buy natural gut strings for a tenor uke? Anyone use them? Can you use natural guy violin strings?
i wonder how many sets i could get out of the neighbor's cat. a really bad thing about gut strings...they need constant tuning, like every song or two. weather changes are really bad too.
Here is another source for gut - Aquila USA:
http://www.aquilausa.com/
It's been awhile since I used any gut strings. It's not the sound most people go for today - mellow lows combined with bright highs, but there's nothing like it for a vintage vibe. I really had to knock it off because I'm generally playing on the porch. Louisiana humidity and gut strings are a horrible match.
BTW, I can understand the trepidation of some to use them, but animals are never killed for their intestines - strings are always a by-product.
Nylgut was made to imitate the sound of true gut, and there's a relation between Nylgut gauges and gut gauges. I was looking through my old documents to try to find some notes on that, but maybe I didn't keep them. I do remember that you can use Nylgut gauges as a base, and adjust from there with real gut. I want to say that you go one gauge thinner from Nylgut to Gut. It could be the other way around, but I doubt it.
Curtis Daly is the Aquila distributor that runs this site, and he could answer that question if you need to be sure.
i wonder how many sets i could get out of the neighbor's cat. a really bad thing about gut strings...they need constant tuning, like every song or two. weather changes are really bad too.