r/BaritoneUkes

absolute beginner to playing music altogether; any resource recommendations?

have wanted a uke for about a decade, finally figured out i want a baritone and got (i think!) a decent one from facebook marketplace. now i am sat in a park with it on my lap and wondering where to begin. does anyone have any beginner resource recommendations? i am heading to a music shop once it opens to buy new strings. is there anything else i should pick up? the brand i have is duke. thank you in advance!!

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u/karataimo — 5 days ago

My Kala consumes wound low D strings for breakfast

As you guys can see she is a tad crippled. I bought her last year and she plays like a dream -when she has all her strings that is. I got her re-strung by the shop I bought her from with D'adario Arte fluorocarbon/silver wound strings so I don't have to deal with the stretchy stock strings.

After a few weeks the thread-through bridge ate my wound low D string. Assuming it was a fluke or a manufacturing error in the winding of the string I bought a new set of the same strings and re-strung my low D.

In a few weeks the same thing happened. Now I am no luthier so I'm not about to go at my bridge holes with a file to smooth it out.

Do you guys have any recommendations for a low D string set that does not include a wound string since my fluorocarbon strings have not snapped.

I prefer the sound of fluorocarbon but I'll take any recommendations at this point.

I live in the UK so getting Uke Logic strings imported is extortionate or really hard to hunt down in shops.

( Also before anyone asks no I do not store her tuned, I always reduce the tension before putting her either back on the wall or in the case. )

u/LightWarmCocoa — 12 days ago