I play a Concert-sized uke, the size larger than the usual soprano, but
I think a tenor would be better-suited, with a low fourth string
(Aquila). And don't buy the cheapest. Good tenors start around -L-120 -
about 150 dollars. A student of mine has an excellent one by a company
called Oscar Schmidt.
Rob
2009/7/17 Leonard Williams <[1]arc...@verizon.net>
I've thought for some time of getting a cheap uke and
restringing it
to play stuff like Mudarra's work for four course guitar. I thought
I might
be kidding myself, but it looks like a viable option, from what I'm
reading
here.
Any suggestions as to size (mensur) and string tension?
Thanks and regards,
Leonard Williams
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On 7/17/09 2:34 AM, "Rob MacKillop" <[2]luteplay...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> It sounds great to my ears. Hopefully this will help the 4c
guitar
> lierature become better known. Even though 4c guitars are a lot
less
> expensive than 5c guitars, they are still prohibitively expensive
for
> beginners. A uke can cost less than a set of strings for a 4c,
and
> really doesn't sound so bad. There is, of course, a difference,
and I
> hope that those who approach the 4c repertoire on a uke do make
the
> transition to an appropriate instrument once they realise the
> limitations of the uke. We shall see. BTW, sounds even better
with gut
> strings...
>
>
>
> Rob
>
> 2009/7/16 Orphenica <[1][3]wer...@orphenica.de>
>
> Thanks everybody,
> encouraged by your answers and especially the amazing site of Rob
> MacKillop (Rob, this is really georgeous!),
> I went to my local guitar dealer. ( By the way, his initial
selling
> point was that, "the babes like small instruments" ;-)
> Finally I bought a tenor uke tuned like a guitar, which sounds
good
> with Aquila strings. In an old Django version,
> I found Le Roys "Tablature de Gviterre", which was good starter.
> Here is a sample: [2][4]http://www.lutecast.com
> I think the uke is perfect for outdoor playing. Tomorrow, I will
test
> my new small tool on the babes lingering in the park.
> Uhuh, Beavis, he said "small tool".
> Thanks, oh collective stringdom and keep the strings swinging.
> we
> Rob MacKillop schrieb:
>
> I have played ukulele on and off from the age of eight and
actually now
> have more income from uke students than from lute and guitar
students
> put together. This has been a recent phenomenom, and YouTube has
a lot
> to do with it, that and the economic downturn. Mostly people just
want
> to strum pop songs, but I've been developing some repertoire for
> fingerstyle playing, including arrangements of baroque guitar
pieces by
> Sanz and others, which I think work a LOT better than such music
on a
> classical guitar. You can see and hear some of these pieces on
this
> website [3][5]www.FingerstyleUke.com - in fact you can find there
more
> than 70 mp3 files for free download alongside some videos.
>
>
>
> As regards 4c guitar literature on the uke - I'm less of an
enthusiast,
> but it can sound ok. The problem is the fourth string, which on a
uke
> is up an octave - re-entrant - which is one of the reasons the
music of
> Sanz sits happilly on the fretboard. Aquila is THE major string
maker
> for ukuleles, and they do sell a set with a low 4th string, so in
> theory you could have exactly the same tuning as a 4c guitar,
except
> for the single strings. Another instrument available over the net
is
> the Taropatch Fiddle - not a fiddle, imagine a uke with double
strings,
> and this could give you a more 4c-like sound for peanuts. BTW,
Aquila
> also sell a gut set for uke!
>
>
>
> I currently have five students playing Sanz on the uke - none of
whom
> had shown the slightest interest in so-called 'classical music'
before.
> They are loving it, and three of them have bought baroque guitar
CDs
> now.
>
>
>
> Rob MacKillop
>
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>
> References
>
> 1. mailto:[6]wer...@orphenica.de
> 2. [7]http://www.lutecast.com/
> 3. [8]http://www.fingerstyleuke.com/
>
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References
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2. mailto:luteplay...@googlemail.com
3. mailto:wer...@orphenica.de
4. http://www.lutecast.com/
5. http://www.fingerstyleuke.com/
6. mailto:wer...@orphenica.de
7. http://www.lutecast.com/
8. http://www.fingerstyleuke.com/
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