It’s feels just a tiny bit raised but there’s no crack or anything. When I run my fingernail over it there’s nothing that catches. Is there anything kind of repair to do or does my ukulele have a new permanent beauty mark?
Hello ukesters,
I've been hammering away on my B-stock used Kala tenor for quite some time now and gigging with all of the community groups that I play with. Some of the younger folks started a band covering more modern music and asked me to join. So now I'm gigging even more.
My big hands needed a wider fretboard. I had the chance to play some of the ukes from the collections of retired folks with severe UAS and realized that a 1.5" fretboard is what I need for my hands to really feel comfortable.
My best option was Flight. They have a 1.5" nut width, and look really nice, and I'm a lead player who moved over from guitar, so they satisfy that itch to look cool as well. Plus I did research, and living in NJ outside of Philly, there just aren't any shops around that carry ukes I want, in the price range that I can afford (less than $1k). The Fireball could be ordered from Guitar Center and returned in 45 days if I don't like it.
Fit and finish are great. Sound is great. Playability and intonation are excellent. It's just the dang Double C1U active pickup has a really uneven string response with the C being way loud, the E being quite loud, and the G & A strings being not very loud.
I sanded the saddle smooth. Nope, just a little better. I added wood shims under the G & A and resanded the saddle again for the extra height. Nope, just a little better. I'm running mild compression on the front of my signal chain, it helps but again, just a little bit better.
Does anyone have a uke with this pickup system that has even string response from it?
I could return the Fireball and get a different Flight uke and hope it's better. If this pickup system is just trash, then I could also keep the Fireball and swap in a LR Baggs 5.0 that I have. I could also just live with it as no one in the crowd has said "That was a great solo on Hotel California but the string response on your uke is wildly out of balance".
James Hill calls it monostrum (great name for it, he has DETAILED instructions and exercises in "Ukulele X"), Dobro players call it raking, Lou Barlow of Dinosair Jr. (and avant garde solo ukulele player) has an entire bass guitar style based around it.
Strum all or almost all strings hard but mute in such a way that only a single open string or fretted note sounds (you'll be using all the muting techniques you know in both hands). Try simple melodies, try scales, try adding riffs to, from, and into chords...
Once you get it down you end up with a way to get fluid melodic lines that stand out with percussive grit.
Hi guys.. I'm planning to learn a new skill and i want to start from Ukulele.. can you guys please suggest. Since I'm new, I don't want to spend a lot of money on this and it has to be simple..so which one should i buy. I have to buy from Amazon or Flipkart in India. Something that doesn't cost me much and also helps me learn it. Also any other tips or suggestions would be appreciated.! Thanks in advance.
I messed up on a few keys, especially B, but I hope you like it!
Im trying to play this on ukulele and it would help to know exactly when the words are if someone could write them on it would be amazing please
Hello all, i am new to playing Ukulele. I just bought it today. I need yall’s help. While playing single strings and then again going to strum the same string , a buzz noise is coming. How can i avoid it? Is it my technique problem or the uke’s ?
Any advice would be really appreciated.
Hey,
Ive got a new uke (Flight Diana) since end of may and i installed the fretmont low g soloist.
Ive noticed some weeks ago that my sattle is slighly starting to lift as well as the top is bending around the sattle. Lifting is on both sides equally
Should i check on my uke by a specialist or no.
Here are some photos.
for me, I learnt Am, G and C first (we all know why)
Currently I have the vault acoustic tenor ukulele that I got from amazon for learning as a beginner.
I want to know what all different brands of ukuleles I can purchase from as I grow my skills.
I want the premium looking ones and if possible, not that expensive 🥲
I bought my first "nice" uke brand new last week and I was very happy with it, but I've just noticed that the strings are fraying(is that the right word?), surely that shouldn't happen after less than a week of use, right?
Could it be due to poor technique or have I just got very unlucky with the strings?
Finger picking single notes mostly. I pretty much have the whole thing down!
I have found this 4 chords that just sound good together by trying new positions, I found the names later and sorry but can't remember them cos are like A#7dim9.
The chords per se are sad but with a good bossa nova vibe and a few add notes here and there sound cool to me.
Now, I showed this to my friends but they don't understand a thing about music so can you please tell me if It sounds good to you?
I also fuked It up a bit at the start of the strumming.
Yes I was smoking but this Is just one of the 10 videos of trying.
I'm narrowing my search for a ukulele and I'm down to a mahogany tenor but I'm stuck on acoustic or acoustic/electric. I'm a beginner and my goal is to learn some on my own and then sit in with some local community jams. Part of me is thinking I should start with the acoustic and go from there. But then I think it might be fun to put on some headphones and plug a NUX Mighty Plug Pro into the instrument and enrich the acoustic sound or turn it electric. I figure anything that makes practicing more fun is a good thing. Having to change a battery periodically and the extra weight the electronic pickup w/EQ and tuner adds (looks to be 4-5 ounces) isn't much and so those two things don't bother me. But what I'm wondering is if the electronics will maybe change the balance of the ukulele and make it difficult or awkward to hold, or if it causes the instrument's acoustic sound to change when playing unplugged.
Hi guys!
I have a question about my ukulele. I've been playing for just over 1 year now, daily, sometimes multiple times a day, whenever I can really. I've gone back into education following a major life incident which led to me needing to change my career. Honestly, having a play around on my uke helps me unwind. It's a lovely serene instrument. :3
Anyway, a few months ago, I took my uke to a local music shop to get it restrung. It had been sounding bad for a while, and being a disabled person, I have issues with my dexterity which means that I found it awkward to do myself.
They did the one string with me and then let me, being determined to do it myself, go and try to do the rest alone. I still had trouble, even after being shown how to do it.
I go back to them and ask for them to do the other 3 remaining strings.
I was told then that it wouldn't sound quite right immediately and that I'd have to retune it a few times.
It's sounding worse than ever... I'm getting quite concerned now.....
It's a real echoey, vibrating sound. It sounds similar to how it would sound if you hit it too hard, except it seems irrelevant of how hard I hit it.....
Any advice on what could be wrong and what I could do to help remedy it?
Thanks guys
I need a rigid foam case for a concert pineapple. I have an Ohana hard case but it puts my seabags over the weight limit for international flights. I have a basic canvas dense foam case from Cordoba for my tenor and its 1/3 of the weight. All I can find in online shops are those flimsy 10-25mm foam gig bags that will surely be crushed by my other luggage items. The rigid foam cases hold up so who makes a rigid foam case for pineapples?
Hi everyone,
I recently got a new ukulele, a Cascha Art Series Leafy, and I tuned it using several different tuning apps just to make sure it was correct.
The problem is that when I play the open strings, everything sounds fine. But when I play chords like C or F, the ukulele sounds completely out of tune. And yes, I'm pressing the strings close to the frets.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be an intonation issue, the strings still stretching, or something else?