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Question about using beads for securing strings under bridge pins?????
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That sounds about right. I am not sure what you mean with click but it is important that when you use pins with channel to make sure...
Yesterday at 8:18 PM
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Question about using beads for securing strings under bridge pins?????
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Yes that's how the Labella are just little cubes that serve to label the strings. As I don't have ukes with holes in the bridge I just...
Yesterday at 8:13 PM
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Question about using beads for securing strings under bridge pins?????
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There is some weird advice here about turning pins. Essentially there are two types of pin systems. The first one one has slots in the...
Yesterday at 4:47 PM
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New Martin 5K?
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The wood on this uke does not look like a 5k at all and that endpin is just as wrong as it gets.
Friday at 2:04 PM
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Black Nylon Strings, what’s their history?
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I doubt that the historic Kamaka ukuleles are brand new and have original gut strings. They are most likely gently used and were...
Friday at 1:56 PM
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Oahu Trip 2023 Experiences - UPDATE: with pics!
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I think I will need to go this winter. So I checked my favourite hotel room rates and they went up by more that a third of the price...
Wednesday at 3:57 PM
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tuner not strong enough for wound low G on my tenor uke
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What do you mean with one "failed" and the other was too "weak". Do you have pictures of the damage? Usually a string would break way...
Sep 23, 2023
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Is tuning up a whole step to High A tuning likely to damage a tenor?
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Shouldn't be a problem but just for short effect a capo would be easier if you don't want to transpose. This is traditional soprano...
Sep 23, 2023
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Solution for broken slotted bridge.
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A nice old Kamaka deserves a proper repair. Surely one of our friendly neighborhood luthiers has seen this before and has a good fix...
Sep 22, 2023
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Low G
Do you low wound G players…
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On my low G uke I had the red low G and when it finally went after 6 or 7 years I sure changed the whole set.
Sep 22, 2023
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Relative tuning - Reentrant soprano
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I have the "My Dog Has Fleas" tune strongly embedded in my mind and that's what I tune to unless I'm playing with others, in which case...
Sep 22, 2023
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Low G
Do you low wound G players…
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Wound strings can wear out quickly so for low G I try to have some spares around for when that happens. The rest of the set gets changed...
Sep 22, 2023
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In the 1960s I performed as a folksinger in New York, and as @merlin666 said, black strings (usually inexpensive and with ball ends)...
Sep 21, 2023
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Black Nylon Strings, what’s their history?
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I don't think that is right. Heavier gauge means they are thicker and thicker strings of same material and scale length will have higher...
Sep 21, 2023
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Black Nylon Strings, what’s their history?
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I don't think that Segovias black label were actually black strings. I vaguely remember that decades ago black nylon strings were often...
Sep 21, 2023
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