Dear uke-mates (if I may call you this),
I recently bought a tenor Uke (very low price for what it is).
I checked the intonation and measured the fret distances (because I had bad luck with cheap ukes before) and it was pretty much ok, except for the (thick) C string. So I thought, maybe these weren't real Aquilas as prompted and changed them to Aquila Sugar strings (the sound of the Uke pleased me but it was on the mellow side, so I thought I might try these.
Still the same with the C string, and also the E string a bit. Lowered the action at the bridge and set the bridge a tiny bit back (this was a result from checking the distances).
Now the thinnest two strings 4-G and 1-A are really accurate up to the 12th fret, but those in the center aren't which I find strange.
Would you think that I had bad luck with the strings again (how probable is this), or would you think it is possible that the inner chords could touch not the really end of the nut, but a tiny bit more head-wise?
Strange...
Cheers,
Dominique
I recently bought a tenor Uke (very low price for what it is).
I checked the intonation and measured the fret distances (because I had bad luck with cheap ukes before) and it was pretty much ok, except for the (thick) C string. So I thought, maybe these weren't real Aquilas as prompted and changed them to Aquila Sugar strings (the sound of the Uke pleased me but it was on the mellow side, so I thought I might try these.
Still the same with the C string, and also the E string a bit. Lowered the action at the bridge and set the bridge a tiny bit back (this was a result from checking the distances).
Now the thinnest two strings 4-G and 1-A are really accurate up to the 12th fret, but those in the center aren't which I find strange.
Would you think that I had bad luck with the strings again (how probable is this), or would you think it is possible that the inner chords could touch not the really end of the nut, but a tiny bit more head-wise?
Strange...
Cheers,
Dominique