Graham Greenbag
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At one time I was of the view that Ukes and Guitars were two completely separate things, I believe that that view is shared by the ‘average’ man or woman ‘on the street’. Now I really wonder whether that’s completely wrong, I’ve discovered varieties of Guitar that range in size and have four rather than six strings too. Guitar tuning has a variety of standards too.
Now I wonder what a Guitar actually is. It seems to me that the term Guitar is misused or misunderstood as it relates to both a wide family of instruments as well as the common aucustic six string ‘guitar’. As such isn’t the Uke simply a small or moderately sized Guitar with four strings and one of the two (most) common Uke tunings?
What do others think and what’s in the Guitar family?
Now I wonder what a Guitar actually is. It seems to me that the term Guitar is misused or misunderstood as it relates to both a wide family of instruments as well as the common aucustic six string ‘guitar’. As such isn’t the Uke simply a small or moderately sized Guitar with four strings and one of the two (most) common Uke tunings?
What do others think and what’s in the Guitar family?
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