![]() ![]() Hi there, just thought I would pass some information on, obviously this is at your own risk, I wouldn’t want to harm anyone’s uke or have someone have a string break on them etc., etc., but I have had great success, tuning my Tenor Uke to GDAE for mandolin/violin fingering, here are the details: Since I prefer the both the sound of nylon strings and their gentler impact on fingers, it made more sense to get a baritone ukulele. Plus ukuleles, like classical guitars, are built for nylon strings so they have less bracing (*never* put steel strings on a classical guitar or a uke), so it’s just a matter of finding the correct strings for the baritone uke tuning you want. That said, there are folks who have tried it and liked the results.īaritone uke scale length is shorter with 20-1/8inches being common now but I believe 19inches was more common in past years. While it is possible to set one up with nylon strings, the extra bracing of a guitar built for steel strings is overkill for nylon strings and would result in some volume loss if using nylon strings not sure if resonance and overtones would suffer. Tenor guitars are steel strung, 4-strings, usually tuned DGBE, CGDA or GDAE and with a common scale length of 23inches (though I’ve seen ranges from 21-25inches listed). ![]() The baritone uke above will retain the same tuning but have that lower octave mellow tone I like so much. Now learning to play fiddle has brought me back to plucked instruments, with the arsenal currently consisting of a Weber Sweet Pea mandolin strung with 4 strings instead of 8 strings and a soprano uke with Aquila 5ths strings. Still miss it and never really found a guitar comparable to that one, so ended up not playing anymore. Sadly, someone decided to store it in the attic with the strings at tension while I was away in the military for a few years when I returned it looked as though it had been attacked with a bat. As a kid I had a sweet mellow old nylon strung guitar with a narrow neck which was a pleasure to play. The goal was to get a nylon strung instrument.Įven in guitars, I have always prefered the sound of nylon over steel strings although I do find the narrower neck width of steel strung guitars easier to play. Re: baritone uke in gdae octave mandolin tuningĪbsolutely not, Fred. Sounded great when he played it over the phone (yes, I know) so we now own a Pono mahogony baritone ukulele…a sweet-sounding nylon-string instrument in GDAE tuning. G … classical guitar high tension low E tuned to Gĭ … baritone DGBE set, move D over one spaceĪ … classical guitar high tension G tuned to A The gdae tuning would make it easier to play celtic tunes, plus retain the same tuning in all 3 instruments ultimately went with the baritone uke option.įinally we found a uke store with someone who thought figuring out the best strings to tune GDAE on a baritone uke sounded like an interesting fun project and if it worked then we would buy the uke (as opposed to the usual reponse of offering to sell a uke and we could try different strings) of course we would pay for the strings used in testing. ![]() Since we think nylon strings sound better than steel strings and wanted a lower octave than mandolin (because that also sounds nicer), we looked at tenor guitar changed to nylon strings vs baritone uke changed to gdae octive mandolin tuning. ![]()
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