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May 6, 2022 · Jul 25, 2022. #17. I have an older Kala SMHB baritone ukulele. I installed La Bella 700 T tenor guitar strings. steel strings but extra light and low tension. These are designed to be tuned CGDA, but I tuned it DGBE, so the 1st and 2nd strings have even less tension. Overall, the tension does not seem bad.
- Instruments Are Designed For A Specific String Type
- But Can You Just Try It?
- But I Know A Guy Who Uses Steel Strings on His Uke
- Solid-Body Electric Instruments Are Designed For Steel Strings
- Related Questions
- Conclusion
The type of string to be used is part of the instrument’s design. From the bracing inside the body to the size of the slots and/or holes for the strings to the joining of the neck and the gluing of the bridge—all these choices in the build are made with the type of string in mind. An instrument is designed for a certain level of pounds-per-inch of ...
You could, and people do—though certainly not on an expensive instrument! It’s possible to get really technical and calculate the amount of tension your instrument currently supports with nylon strings, and work from there, but you’ll likely to run into problems with intonation (pitch) and action (height of strings above the fretboard) because the ...
When you see steel strings used successfully on acoustic ukuleles, most certainly the instrument was designed that way. Steel string acoustic ukes exist out there in the ukulele community. And they can sound and work great—because the design and build was made for it. The luthier I consulted confirmed what I learned from my research. He has designe...
I recently got a Fanner electric baritone ukulele (on Etsy, from South Africa) which of course has steel strings. I played one at a ukulele festival and fell in love! Solid-body instruments have a completely different structural profile and are designed for steel. A solid body doesn’t have the resonating chamber of hollow body, so amplification and...
Can I Put Classical Guitar Strings on a Uke?Classical guitars are made for nylon strings so, yes, you can classical guitar strings on your baritone ukulele if they are nylon, fluorocarbon, or gut. Try the middle four strings of a classical guitar set. (Because the bari scale length is shorter, a thicker string is needed to create the same note.) Wh...
To sum up, don’t try steel strings on an acoustic instrument that you want to keep in good condition! If you’re not happy with the way your uke sounds, try different strings in the nylon/fluorocarbon category. If you’re looking for that guitar-like sound that you can get with baritone ukulele, try a string set with wound G and D strings. If you dec...
E String, clear fluorocarbon .022. B string, clear fluorocarbon .027. G string, silver plated wound .024. D string, silver plated wound .030. Update: As of this writing, I've tried the UX780 set nineteen times on three baritone ukes. They are hand down my favorite in the past three years.
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Nov 7, 2022 · The baritone, as the largest member of the ukulele family, is approaching the guitar in size. It is tuned the same as the bottom four strings of a guitar (e a D G B E ), and the two deepest strings on the baritone, the D and the G, are often wound metal strings (more on wound strings in a minute!). Its size, along with the use of these metal ...
Nov 15, 2022 · The Baritone Ukulele is also strung in an ascending order of pitch. This means that when strummed from the top down, the open strings ascend from lowest pitch to highest pitch, with the “D” string as the lowest and the “E” string as the highest. This is referred to in music as a Linear Tuning.
