Great video, quick and to the point. Thanks! My only nitpick is that you failed to mention that the baritone does not use the reentrant tuning, which is, of course, another big difference as compared to the smaller ukes.
Aloha! Good eyes. The first one is actually a soprano size, but with added frets beyond what a normal soprano would have (as opposed to a long neck, which has larger frets). While it's unusual to have a soprano standard with that many frets, a few do come that way, particularly in solid woods. Mahalo!
Very nice. Most useful and well done. Many thanks. If I get a uke should I get it from you, shipped to Tennessee...in the fall or spring, of just try to find ono on some site like musicians friend? There are no really good distributors of ukes in the mountains of Tennessee. I play incredibly well made Taylor guitars, so any recommendations for a correctly intoned uke, tenor size, no cutaways, no electronics .... a traditional true acoustic instrument? Is this possible under $500? Soft gig bag fine, hard shell case not required. Perhaps a video comparing the same size uke in the $200 to $500 to $1000 range would be nice. Again, many thanks from the mountains of East Tennessee.
if you send me your email address i can link you to another video i have on my dropbox that might help in this direction, or I can make a custom one for you. my email is ukulele.jj@gmail.com Aloha! - jason
Hi Kathee! It does vary based on the ukulele. On guitar, the first dot is often on the third fret; on ukulele, it's almost always on the fifth fret first (the frets are much smaller, even on a baritone, so it's easy to keep four or five frets in your focused range of vision).
thank you for your reply, my niece is asking me a few questions as i am a musician, but unfortunately i know nothing about ukulele's, so would i be right in saying that the fret wire on the u-bass is a much thicker/gauge than on a Baritone ukulele, once again thank you for your patients and reply.
The strings on the bass are MUCH thicker. Fortunately, we do carry baritones, and they are usually less expensive than U-Basses (at least when you're getting started)!
Aloha! "Ookalayay" is the correct Hawaiian pronunciation, but since there's no way to end a word without a pronounced vowel in Hawaiian, we use the English abbreviation "Yook" when we want to use the short word. Hope that clears up the confusion!
Oo-koo-leh-leh. Ukus are bugs like fleas and lice and the ending "lele"- I believe refers to the strings being played by the fingers. So, one can make the logical assumption that "Ukulele" means "fingers jumping like sand fleas" there for "oo-koo-leh-leh" is more than likely the correct pronunciation of the word.
This is the best size description I have seen yet. Great Work!
Thank you for putting this together. It was exactly what I needed.
3:23 The tone of the Baritone is so soothing. Please tell me that melody you're playing or the chords if possible.
Thank you for the clarification I thought what I bought was a bass uke but now I know what i have is a Baritone ukulele
Great video, quick and to the point. Thanks! My only nitpick is that you failed to mention that the baritone does not use the reentrant tuning, which is, of course, another big difference as compared to the smaller ukes.
5:15 that gave me a heart attack, nice vid btw
Thanks, Jason.
I'd like a baritone ukulele that's strung so it can be tuned C G D A, like a tenor banjo.
0:07 gotta love the way you pronounced that
The correct way?
Very useful informative video. Thanks!
Very useful video, thanks!
I’d love two tenors... one each with high g and low g... and an ubass:)
Cool comparison but correct me if I'm wrong the first ukulele you showed is not actually a normal soprano but a soprano with concert neck
Aloha! Good eyes. The first one is actually a soprano size, but with added frets beyond what a normal soprano would have (as opposed to a long neck, which has larger frets). While it's unusual to have a soprano standard with that many frets, a few do come that way, particularly in solid woods. Mahalo!
Thanks for clearing this up for me!
oohkahlaylay
I really want to get a baritone
the U bass sounds like the true blood theme
Does baritone accept ubass strings ?
Mahalo for the Uke instructions!
Very nice. Most useful and well done. Many thanks. If I get a uke should I get it from you, shipped to Tennessee...in the fall or spring, of just try to find ono on some site like musicians friend? There are no really good distributors of ukes in the mountains of Tennessee.
I play incredibly well made Taylor guitars, so any recommendations for a correctly intoned uke, tenor size, no cutaways, no electronics .... a traditional true acoustic instrument? Is this possible under $500? Soft gig bag fine, hard shell case not required.
Perhaps a video comparing the same size uke in the $200 to $500 to $1000 range would be nice.
Again, many thanks from the mountains of East Tennessee.
if you send me your email address i can link you to another video i have on my dropbox that might help in this direction, or I can make a custom one for you. my email is ukulele.jj@gmail.com Aloha! - jason
Thumbs up for random guitar guy 💚
I noticed the baritone ukulele has 4 dots on the neck, do all baritones have 4 dots on neck? Or does it just vary?
Hi Kathee! It does vary based on the ukulele. On guitar, the first dot is often on the third fret; on ukulele, it's almost always on the fifth fret first (the frets are much smaller, even on a baritone, so it's easy to keep four or five frets in your focused range of vision).
can you put baritone strings on an u-bass ukulele
Great question! U-bass necks and nuts are designed only for the u-bass, so you can't swap those strings for baritone. Aloha!
thank you
thank you for your reply, my niece is asking me a few questions as i am a musician, but unfortunately i know nothing about ukulele's, so would i be right in saying that the fret wire on the u-bass is a much thicker/gauge than on a Baritone ukulele, once again thank you for your patients and reply.
The strings on the bass are MUCH thicker. Fortunately, we do carry baritones, and they are usually less expensive than U-Basses (at least when you're getting started)!
Hold up, he says uke the correct way (Yook)
Then when he says ukelele
He says it like wrong (ookalayay)
The correct pronunciation is:
(Yookalaylay)
Aloha! "Ookalayay" is the correct Hawaiian pronunciation, but since there's no way to end a word without a pronounced vowel in Hawaiian, we use the English abbreviation "Yook" when we want to use the short word. Hope that clears up the confusion!
Oh ok
@@ishi_gho9695 or is it 'uk' lol!
He said it right. Trust me.
Getting a ubass
pronounced "you-kuh-lay-lee"
and "ooh-kah-lei-lei"
Coreybdrums The Hawaiian pronunciation is oo-ku-lei-lei
Coreybdrums Jason and his staff are from Hawaii. So they pronounce it oo-kuh-lay-lee.
Thanks
Oo-koo-leh-leh. Ukus are bugs like fleas and lice and the ending "lele"- I believe refers to the strings being played by the fingers. So, one can make the logical assumption that "Ukulele" means "fingers jumping like sand fleas" there for "oo-koo-leh-leh" is more than likely the correct pronunciation of the word.
Who else got annoyed when he said OOOklele
Gamer_ON Publishing Co. He said it right.