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someone please awnser this quickly... ukulele question
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its such a nice fucken day all i wan t to do is go outside but i cant tune this bitch.. are all strings on a ukulele the same thickness?


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Re: someone please awnser this quickly... ukulele question [Re: habitat0789]
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Measure them.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele
Tuning a ukulele
In the United States, soprano and concert ukes are usually tuned in the chord of C6: G-C-E-A, with the G-string traditionally tuned an octave up (re-entrant), so it is pitched between the E- and A-strings. In the past, it was not uncommon for the soprano to be tuned a whole step higher in the chord of D6: A-D-F#-B, with the lowest note being D (the A is a whole step below the B). This tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighter and louder. This tuning is still used today by some known personalities in ukulele circles.

The baritone ukulele, which was not invented or developed until the 1940s at the request of Arthur Godfrey, is usually tuned in G (like the highest sounding four strings of a guitar, D-G-B-E), which makes it as much a tenor guitar as a ukulele.

The tenor ukulele can be tuned either way, and in C tuning is sometimes tuned with the G-string an octave lower, so it is pitched below the C-string, where you might expect it. Some historians say such a tuning makes it a small guitar, since the re-entrant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele.

An alternative tuning is B♭-E♭-G-C, raised a semitone to the key of E flat. Either of these tunings, and the C tuning above, are known when strummed by the mnemonic, "My dog has fleas", possibly referring to the "jumping flea" translated into Hawai'ian as "ukulele." Any song by this name postdates the use of the phrase in published teaching materials by at least decades.

Many other alternate tunings are also used, depending on the needs of the player.

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Re: someone please awnser this quickly... ukulele question [Re: Cowgold]
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fuck all that nonsense... i think i got it figured out...

happy trails all


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Re: someone please awnser this quickly... ukulele question [Re: Cowgold]
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"my dog has fleas"
:lol:
I still think of that every time I pick up a uke.  Learned to tune it that way when I was about 10.
:grin:


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