daviddecom
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I got a Risa tenor stick this week, and while I'm quite impressed with the precision of it (it has far and away the best intonation up and down the neck of any of my ukuleles, and the whole thing just feels really well-made), I'm finding that it might actually be a little too compact.
There are two different ways the compactness affects me. First, because the body is so shallow, both arms and wrists have to be angled in what feel like awkward ways to reach. Tucking a medium-sized book between my torso and the body of the stick is actually enough to alleviate the issue, but it doesn't seem like a permanent solution.
Second, it turns out that I'm used to resting my right forearm on the edge of the lower bout of my normal ukuleles (in fact, my normal tenor has a nice rounded edge there just for that purpose). The stick, of course, doesn't have a lower bout at all, which makes it hard to find a place to rest my forearm. Again, I can jury-rig a solution (a rolled-up towel does the trick), but it'd be nice to have a more permanent solution.
So I was thinking of trying to assemble something a little more permanent (ideally along the lines of a violin chinrest and shoulder rest but maybe as simple as some foam blocks and velcro), and I thought I'd check to see if anyone else had had similar issues and come up with a better solution or just had some ideas.
Thanks,
David
There are two different ways the compactness affects me. First, because the body is so shallow, both arms and wrists have to be angled in what feel like awkward ways to reach. Tucking a medium-sized book between my torso and the body of the stick is actually enough to alleviate the issue, but it doesn't seem like a permanent solution.
Second, it turns out that I'm used to resting my right forearm on the edge of the lower bout of my normal ukuleles (in fact, my normal tenor has a nice rounded edge there just for that purpose). The stick, of course, doesn't have a lower bout at all, which makes it hard to find a place to rest my forearm. Again, I can jury-rig a solution (a rolled-up towel does the trick), but it'd be nice to have a more permanent solution.
So I was thinking of trying to assemble something a little more permanent (ideally along the lines of a violin chinrest and shoulder rest but maybe as simple as some foam blocks and velcro), and I thought I'd check to see if anyone else had had similar issues and come up with a better solution or just had some ideas.
Thanks,
David