I'm digging the deep sound, big time! I've gifted a few tenor ukes tuned with the baritone uke tuning but I just changed the D sting. I will try it with the classical guitar strings, thanks.
Nice one! I might give that a go. I strung low G on my tenor and I quite like the sound. But getting to baritone tuning would make my like so much easier! I mainly play nylon strung guitar, so I have some spare sets to hand. Thanks for the idea amigo.
Brilliant! Simple solutions are often the best. Adagio strings £7 on an Islander acacia tenor sounds better than it did with low gcea tuning. I compared it with a Kala laminate baritone: The Islander has less volume but certainly a far more pleasing mellow tone. I also compared it with my solid mahogany Ohana baritone (Worth brown strings). Also my 50s mahogany Harmony. No surprise they both had a distinct edge on the Islander. An important element of your post: If you have a tenor and like the idea of a baritone, don't buy one! Follow your advice and buy strings. You can sample baritone delights for a few pounds and see if you like it. .
Thanks for this advise a have ordered a tenor ukulele as my first uke with the specific intention of setting it up as a baritone. I have also ordered the guitar strings and let you know how I go after I've set it all up and played for a bit 🙂.
Nice playing. Thanka for the tips. One question: how's the volume? I mean compared with regular ukulele reentrant tuning strings? You can't really hear that from the video. Thanks.
I'm not a guitar player and don't know a lot about strings for them. I asked at the music store and then they mention strings that are tighter and ones with other quirks so hoping you would advise a few brands and their string names and codes that you would recommend for this purpose. Appreciated.
@@drbekken Thanks for the reply. I ended up using Martin & Co M160 strings that advise they are Hard Tension. I put these on one tenor uke and then when I purchased another tenor uke I thought I would try the Pepe Romero ones. The Martins strings tension is very close in tension to the Pepe Romero strings but I think the Martins have just a tad less tension. Not much in it so obviously they are not too tight for the tenor uke which is good so they won't pull off the bridge. For the difference in cost ($12 vs $35) would just go with the Classic guitar strings again. Cheers
Thanks for this. I might just give this a go since there is hardly any baritone uke that I can buy where I live.
I'm digging the deep sound, big time! I've gifted a few tenor ukes tuned with the baritone uke tuning but I just changed the D sting. I will try it with the classical guitar strings, thanks.
Nice one! I might give that a go. I strung low G on my tenor and I quite like the sound. But getting to baritone tuning would make my like so much easier! I mainly play nylon strung guitar, so I have some spare sets to hand. Thanks for the idea amigo.
Brilliant! Simple solutions are often the best.
Adagio strings £7 on an Islander acacia tenor sounds better than it did with low gcea tuning. I compared it with a Kala laminate baritone: The Islander has less volume but certainly a far more pleasing mellow tone. I also compared it with my solid mahogany Ohana baritone (Worth brown strings). Also my 50s mahogany Harmony. No surprise they both had a distinct edge on the Islander.
An important element of your post: If you have a tenor and like the idea of a baritone, don't buy one! Follow your advice and buy strings. You can sample baritone delights for a few pounds and see if you like it.
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Yes indeed
Thanks for this advise a have ordered a tenor ukulele as my first uke with the specific intention of setting it up as a baritone. I have also ordered the guitar strings and let you know how I go after I've set it all up and played for a bit 🙂.
Let us know
Thanks!
Nice playing. Thanka for the tips. One question: how's the volume? I mean compared with regular ukulele reentrant tuning strings? You can't really hear that from the video. Thanks.
pretty much the same, but more mellow in a way
I take it that they'll do just fine on a 20" scale length baritone too?
I'm not a guitar player and don't know a lot about strings for them. I asked at the music store and then they mention strings that are tighter and ones with other quirks so hoping you would advise a few brands and their string names and codes that you would recommend for this purpose. Appreciated.
I just use normal tension classical guitar strings
@@drbekken Thanks for the reply. I ended up using Martin & Co M160 strings that advise they are Hard Tension. I put these on one tenor uke and then when I purchased another tenor uke I thought I would try the Pepe Romero ones. The Martins strings tension is very close in tension to the Pepe Romero strings but I think the Martins have just a tad less tension. Not much in it so obviously they are not too tight for the tenor uke which is good so they won't pull off the bridge. For the difference in cost ($12 vs $35) would just go with the Classic guitar strings again. Cheers
Thanks for the advice! Do you also have an option where all strings are unwound?
Not that I know of, I’m afraid…
Can i still use regluar tenor ukelele chords in this method of a differe t tuning for baritone
you can use tenor chord shapes, but they will sound a fourth lower than when played on the tenor
Will these guitar strings warp the neck on the ukulele?🐣
No...it works fine.
Have you tried this with a concert
No…