Of course, we are not talking about proper ukuleles - i.e. sopranos. Putting a low G on a sop. is a criminal offence.
John Colter.
IT is indeed punishable my loss of one's tonal sensitivity, and maybe even a few friends.
Of course, we are not talking about proper ukuleles - i.e. sopranos. Putting a low G on a sop. is a criminal offence.
John Colter.
Unless it's a long neck soprano. Then it's fine.Of course, we are not talking about proper ukuleles - i.e. sopranos. Putting a low G on a sop. is a criminal offence..
Bwahahaha. I see what u did there. :rofl:There's no problem taking a ukulele into low G:
Of course, we are not talking about proper ukuleles - i.e. sopranos. Putting a low G on a sop. is a criminal offence.
John Colter.
I was warned that cheap ukes can suffer damage to neck and bridge by mounting a low G string. Is this correct?
In what way were you warned that it would it damage the neck or bridge? Was there something particular to the string that this person who warned you told you would cause this damage? All I can think is that they thought that the string would have too much tension, and I don't think that is how it works. I believe that all the strings on a ukulele are about equal in tension and the tone comes from the diameter of the string and not from tension. My research tells me that is why you can't just tune the string an octave down, because the tension has to be fairly equal on all of the strings for it to strum well. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but that's what I believe is true. So using that as a criteria, it wouldn't make any difference unless you were trying to force some other diameter string to produce your low g.
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Some guy on facebook stating imperiously that he had often seen it happen. Saying that since I had not strung a lot of cheap ukes with Low G, I didn't know what I was talking about.