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I'm going to vote no, they aren't worth it. A baritone is just an inch or so taller than my tenors. My tenor guitar, tuned DGBE, is essentially a much better-built baritone with steel strings. ...

I think the problem is you soprano players where your headstock is longer than your fretboard.

From a tenor's point of view, my uke is hanging from its strap, one hand has a cigar and the other...

I received some replacement crystals for my humidifer. I need to dry out the humidifer and get the crystals out of there so that I can replace them. I am talking about my Kamaka's humidifier.
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Since you have eight strings you could just tune it in fifths like a mandolin.

I cannot abide wound strings and I like dark strings so my choices are Worth brown of Fremont Blacklines.

That's a five-chord/power chord. It is lacking the third interval. The third interval is the one which determines if a chord is major or minor. So you have a gender-neutral chord and if it sounds...

I always use this tuning and I just use regular strings. I typically use Worth or Fremont strings. Originally I settled on this tuning because I wanted a certain feel to my A string. So I...

This has been a very educational thread. I had to google all the bridge variations because I didn't know which bridges I had. All my ukuleles (custom, Kamaka, and all my lesser former ukes) had...

I'm still working on getting acquainted with the G and the GAB sequence. I'm still trying to latch on to its liabilities and advantages. I'm also getting able to recognize it visually. I kind of...

For that 6 shape, and its corresponding m7 shape, I just play it without the G string. In your case that would be (X433). It is so much easier than trying to get that mini-barre on the E and A...

I became marginally proficient in claw-hammer but gave it up because it was a one-trick pony and for my goals I need more versatile tools. However here's what I did

1. for rhythm I used the...

That seems like an advanced variation. It takes a while to get the hang of the claw and learning how wide to make the claw to hit whichever string that needs to be hit. Since hammering the claw...

There seems to be a bit of a common feeling running around the ukulele world. I haven't been very productive lately and the threads around here have been a bit frivolous. There was one about the...

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that's the video I used for this situation. There are no knots involved and it seemed easier than regular headstocks to me.

I haven't been doing much of note lately. Just plodding along. Perhaps the one innovation to my playing has been using arpeggios to link my shapes.

Let me map out one instance.

I was just...

Yeah, I assume the OP is referring to a glissando. I do it all the time. Why? Because it is cool. Sometimes there is a reason like moving an octave (for example moving from the E on the 7th fret...

What about transposing? You're dealing with a I-IV-V progression in Bb. I personally would move everything a tritone away and do it in E, but you could change it to anything else. I remember from...

Since you have this golden opportunity, you could get something other than Chinese assembly-line ukes. I know, for example, that Rob Collins sells sopranos for about $700. If you don't get fancy...

yeah, I checked and it is now gone. What Moore Bettah Ukes was saying above was very reminiscent to what I remember reading on the koolau site. I seem to recall that the Koolau site also mentioned...

I've had to do a lot of stuff relating to my work and couldn't put in the time necessary to make any musical progress.

I'm still fiddling around with pentatonic and minor harmonic shapes that...

I don't know if it is still up, but a few years ago I was contemplating a Koolau custom and I went to their website and they had a page devoted to tonewoods, among which was ulu.

When I bought my first ukulele, I also bought the Hal Leonard scale finder and chord finder. With those two books, you have your chords and your individual notes. With that, you can play anything;

I watched a really insightful video on the circle of fifths. Most of the time, people are trying to dumb down or make less intimidating the circle of fifths. But I saw one that actually, as the...

From what I have heard, nylon strings couldn't generate enough vibration to make a decent sound.

Don't fear the steel strings. I have never used a plectrum in my life and I strum with impunity...

I'm trying to do my part. I didn't mean to cast any aspersions. I just meant that, as a consumer, when I approach google with a question such as "what is a chromatic mediant" or "rules for chord...