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GUke
Lokahi
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 Posted - 12/19/2007 : 9:33:29 PM
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Aloha kakou,
So at Keoki's Big Island camp, I noticed a participant with a six string tenor doubled at the 3rd and 4th string positions. I asked her why, and she said it was made that way. Then I saw another with the same 3rd and 4th string position doulbled. When I asked him, he said he wanted the 1st and 2nd strings free to do leads.
So any other ukulele players out there playing six string tenors strung differently from the typical 1st and 3rd doubled?
And even if those with doubled 1st and 3rd string positions, are they octave different or same?
Just curious as to how and why about your six string set up. I'm having a six string madewith octave doubles at the 1st and 3rd string positions 'cause it's tradition (or am I wrong?)
Aloha,
GUke
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Akahai
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2007 : 04:44:52 AM
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Say, are the 3rd and 4th string doubled tenors strung with a low G?
Aloha,
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 12/20/2007 : 07:44:08 AM
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I am most familiar with the 1st-3rd pairs style, and I've seen Taimane Gardner play an 8-string with two strings in the 1st and 2nd courses removed for picking. But the ukulele world is a luthiers' free-for-all, the same as when Chris Knudtsen was making off-the-wall versions a hundred years ago. I would think the 3rd-4th pairing would give a strong bassy sound in G and A, but lack the root bass note in the key of F.
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