FiL
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I can't tell you how excited I am about this possibility!
- FiL
- FiL
Sounds great but I am not interested, personally. I am also of the opinion that not every stringed instrument needs a ukulele version.
Different strokes, and all. These aren't designed to be a ukulele version of anything (they are meant to be tuned GDAE or GDAD) unless you chose to tune it that way, which in fact I would. I play a long-scale mandola tuned F-Bb-D-G (capo 2 for GCEA) because I am invested in ukulele chord shapes, but I like the sound of steel strings. Price-wise, there is a pretty big gap in the mandola/octave mandolin market between the $600-700 Chinese instruments from the likes of GoldTone and Trinity College and the $1500-3000 handmade instruments. I'm hoping that these instruments fall somewhere in between.
- FiL
Sounds great but I am not interested, personally. I am also of the opinion that not every stringed instrument needs a ukulele version.
Hopefully the nut is WIDER than most mandos or mandolas, so as to help us UKE player fit our elephant-toe sized fingers on the strings.
I can't play a banjo, mando or tenor guitar comfortably because someone with spider fingers decided upon a 1.25" nut width and there's just zero chance of me being able to fret clean chords on that...
Nut needs to be AT LEAST 1.5" or I'm out...
I asked in the YouTube comments what the nut width was but they never replied. I could handle a narrower nut width, but definitely not the standard mando-family nut width. I'd be happy with 1.375", though.
Hello all,
Sorry to have missed your question in the comments section of the video. The nut width is 35mm, just about 1 3/8'', which is standard for Ukes and Octave mandos.
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Very happy to announce that these will be arriving in October! We have two sizes and scale lengths, two tone wood combinations and two finishes to choose from. Check out the details at www.krstrings.com.
Please let me know if you have any questions,
-Kilin Reece
krstrings@gmail.com