merlin666

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...

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...

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...

The wood on this uke does not look like a 5k at all and that endpin is just as wrong as it gets.

I doubt that the historic Kamaka ukuleles are brand new and have original gut strings. They are most likely gently used and were...

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...

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...

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...

A nice old Kamaka deserves a proper repair. Surely one of our friendly neighborhood luthiers has seen this before and has a good fix...

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.

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...

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...

In the 1960s I performed as a folksinger in New York, and as @merlin666 said, black strings (usually inexpensive and with ball ends)...

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...

I don't think that Segovias black label were actually black strings. I vaguely remember that decades ago black nylon strings were often...