As I have gotten back into the Uke again, I am finding myself getting more into the different types of music and variations of the instrument.
I have soprano set up as a machete, a tenor neck soprano set up in plectrum tuning, and a travel tenor tuned dgBe, with the d and g high, like the high strings of a 6 string Uke set, or a kind of “Nashville” ukulele tuning.
I tried the high dGBe strings, but found the low G muddy sounding. Having discovered the Canarian Timple recently, and remembering that Baroque guitars sometimes had a high g paired with the low G, I decided to give the high g on the third position a try. I like it for strumming, and it gives some extra Campanella possibilities!
Speaking of the Timple, having discovered that instrument recently also gave me a source of strings for the machete tuning on my soprano, which is dgbd, an octave above a Baritone Uke.
The strumming and rasgueados on the Timple are very cool, and look to me more similar to Baroque guitar techniques rather than Flamenco. Although there are similarities.
Timples are a bit on the expensive side, when shipping to the US is considered.
Then, I thought of a way to modify a Guitalele to create one myself. But, I sold my Guitalele!
Goodwill finds to the rescue!
Hopefully it will arrive sometime soon, and the modification should not take too long.
So, new facets of the ukulele have me excited for music this coming year!
Thanks for reading all this!
I have soprano set up as a machete, a tenor neck soprano set up in plectrum tuning, and a travel tenor tuned dgBe, with the d and g high, like the high strings of a 6 string Uke set, or a kind of “Nashville” ukulele tuning.
I tried the high dGBe strings, but found the low G muddy sounding. Having discovered the Canarian Timple recently, and remembering that Baroque guitars sometimes had a high g paired with the low G, I decided to give the high g on the third position a try. I like it for strumming, and it gives some extra Campanella possibilities!
Speaking of the Timple, having discovered that instrument recently also gave me a source of strings for the machete tuning on my soprano, which is dgbd, an octave above a Baritone Uke.
The strumming and rasgueados on the Timple are very cool, and look to me more similar to Baroque guitar techniques rather than Flamenco. Although there are similarities.
Timples are a bit on the expensive side, when shipping to the US is considered.
Then, I thought of a way to modify a Guitalele to create one myself. But, I sold my Guitalele!
Goodwill finds to the rescue!
Hopefully it will arrive sometime soon, and the modification should not take too long.
So, new facets of the ukulele have me excited for music this coming year!
Thanks for reading all this!
( although some of the earliest ukes were dgbd or gceg…
