thowell3
Active member
Hi all,
So After many months of thinking about how I was going to go about this I finally decided a way to get around this though in my head.
A few months ago I met some one at a Ukulele Jam that had a 6 String Ukulele. I feel in love with the sound of it and really wanted one of my own, now here comes the hard bit. I am a natural Lefty, So any type of playing a right handed model would be almost impossible, The reason for this (as many of you know) Is the fact that the C string and A String are doubled up and tuned in octave apart.
Now if it were a regular 4 string, all I'd have to do is flip the strings and away I'd go, but since flipping the strings wouldn't make it work I had to look at other options, such as buying a 6 string and replacing the Nut with a custom one that would work for my needs. But that would be costly and really annoying to do.
I had also considered buying a 8 string Ukulele and swapping the strings around on that, but the price on the 8 strings weren't much better then what it would cost to get a 6 string and swapping the nut.
But after some talking with the guy at the Guitar store in town (the one that assisted on my Violele a year ago) I mentioned that I had a Fender Soprano Ukulele and asked what he thought about turning it into a 6 string Ukulele. He told me to bring it in and he'd have a look.
Well good news on that front, I am one step closer to owning my very own 6 String ukulele, He has said that there would be no problem modding this old Fender Ukulele into a 6 string and he is willing to do it for me. I have to find the time for him to do it and get all the information about a 6 string setup before I get him to do it but as soon as I have I will be asking him to set it up for me.
So if you have any helpful info about 6 string Ukuleles that might help me figure it out and make it work, I would greatly appreciate it.
So After many months of thinking about how I was going to go about this I finally decided a way to get around this though in my head.
A few months ago I met some one at a Ukulele Jam that had a 6 String Ukulele. I feel in love with the sound of it and really wanted one of my own, now here comes the hard bit. I am a natural Lefty, So any type of playing a right handed model would be almost impossible, The reason for this (as many of you know) Is the fact that the C string and A String are doubled up and tuned in octave apart.
Now if it were a regular 4 string, all I'd have to do is flip the strings and away I'd go, but since flipping the strings wouldn't make it work I had to look at other options, such as buying a 6 string and replacing the Nut with a custom one that would work for my needs. But that would be costly and really annoying to do.
I had also considered buying a 8 string Ukulele and swapping the strings around on that, but the price on the 8 strings weren't much better then what it would cost to get a 6 string and swapping the nut.
But after some talking with the guy at the Guitar store in town (the one that assisted on my Violele a year ago) I mentioned that I had a Fender Soprano Ukulele and asked what he thought about turning it into a 6 string Ukulele. He told me to bring it in and he'd have a look.
Well good news on that front, I am one step closer to owning my very own 6 String ukulele, He has said that there would be no problem modding this old Fender Ukulele into a 6 string and he is willing to do it for me. I have to find the time for him to do it and get all the information about a 6 string setup before I get him to do it but as soon as I have I will be asking him to set it up for me.
So if you have any helpful info about 6 string Ukuleles that might help me figure it out and make it work, I would greatly appreciate it.
