DownUpDave

Usually nylon strings give a warmer sound then florocarbon. With tenors I have used D'Addario nylons to warm up the sound. I have a...

Wound low G are brighter or more accurately have a more metallic or chimey tone compared to non-wound. You will want to go brighter on...

You should start a thread asking for feedback from Bean Sprout owners. People love to share and it would be valuble or us all.

I’ve been on the verge of getting on his build list several times. What’s always held me back is the lack of much information about his...

Welcome to the forum and glad you are here. Ukulele players have little to no ego and nothing to prove, it's a fun instrument and we are...

I'm new to this forum, but the thoughtfulness and openness of threads like this are amazing to me, coming from twitter I'm always trying...

If you know the history of Martin you know he came over from Germany in 1833 and started the Martin guitar company. He moved to Nazareth...

I am a devoted low G player who uses wound strings for G and C. Even though the wound strings theoretically should become dead sounding...

Excellent trio of Kamakas in that wonderful picture. I love my Kamaka baritone, many other makes have come and gone, the Kamaka stays.

I wanna share a John Prine song I covered in 2022 using clawhammer. I saw Richard Hefner played this with clawhammer on YT and was...

Mainland pairs their cedar top with rosewood back and sides. This usually gives a more articulate sound with lots of overtones, the...

Patty you did good......really really good. The woods are exquisite especially that maple. I love your description of the sound being...

Now why didn't I think of that. True! The whole question is rather moot. To make a Low G string higher tension than a normal G string...

A low G string tuned to low G has less tension then a high G string. It is tuned one octave lower to G3 instead of G4 which the high G...

A while ago I posted about the crack I caused in the sound board of my Kamaka HF-2. Ten days ago I took it to my luthier, Tatsuro...