Dear Arto, a Ukulele (and double bass!) player told me that it's played with a thumb down stroke and index up stroke, not the other way round as one might expect. It's a bit like renaissance technique, isn't it?
Regards, Stephan Am 5 Jan 2004 um 12:17 hat Arto Wikla geschrieben: > > Hi all > > On Friday 02 January 2004 01:50, Bill Sterling wrote: > > ????? > > > > http://www.crane.gr.jp/HyperUkuleleSchool/hyper-U/Weiss/Passagaille_ > > 1.gif > > I made a few ukulele searchs by Google, and to my astonishment the > little guitar is often tuned in g c e a in re-entrant way (so the > "low" 4th string is a fifth higher than the 3rd string. > > This tuning is like the renaissance guitar (chitarrino) tuning. > (Well, the chitarrino has both the high and low g in the 4th course.) > > Anyhow, some of the google found pages could tell that one Portuguese > instrument was taken to Ocean islands in 19th celtury, and that > instrument gave the idea for ukulele. > > Does the collective List Wisdom happen to know, if it really is so > that the ukulele is a direct(?) descendant of renaissance guitar? And > is there anything in common in the playing technique? > > Arto > > >
