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> hello cumbrians if you play poker please visit our site
> 
> www.cumbrianpoker.co.uk
> 

> tont
> 

I play ukulele, is there a cumbrian ukulele site?

plonkingly
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> I play ukulele, is there a cumbrian ukulele site?
> 
> plonkingly
> Ron O'Ukulele


Hey Ron! I came across what I think are 2 ukuleles (ukuleli?)
the other day, but they are quite a bit larger than a standard 
ukulele. Are there different sizes? Know of any websites that 
would describe such things? My son is interested in figuring out 
what they are called and how to tune them.

Johnny-clueless-in-Canada

Johnny@ominous.portent wrote:

>>I play ukulele, is there a cumbrian ukulele site?
>>
>>plonkingly
>>Ron O'Ukulele
> 
> 
> Hey Ron! I came across what I think are 2 ukuleles (ukuleli?)
> the other day, but they are quite a bit larger than a standard 
> ukulele. Are there different sizes? Know of any websites that 
> would describe such things? My son is interested in figuring out 
> what they are called and how to tune them.
> 
> Johnny-clueless-in-Canada


  There`s a whole range of Ukulele from the tiny soprano to a bass. A 
ukulele has four strings tuned with the same intervals as a guitar cept 
the forth (top) string is higher, usually ADF#B or GCEA so if you can 
play the guitar chords to a tune it easily moves onto the ukulele - same 
fingering less the two lowest strings gives you the same tune  but 
obviously in a higher key.

It`s a great instrument, I think it should be taught in schools as it 
has everything going for it.  low cost, portable, easy to play - 
specially for tiny hands, no painful fingertips as with a guitar, and 
you can teach a kid to bash out a recognisable tune in half an hour. 
Best of all.. it`s impossible to play a ukulele without a silly grin on 
your face.

Google will throw up a whole plethora of great uke sites.

http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~kunisige/eukulele.html
http://www.theuke.com
http://www.alligatorboogaloo.com/uke/index.html


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>
>  There`s a whole range of Ukulele from the tiny soprano to a bass. A 
> ukulele has four strings tuned with the same intervals as a guitar cept 
> the forth (top) string is higher, usually ADF#B or GCEA so if you can play 
> the guitar chords to a tune it easily moves onto the ukulele - same 
> fingering less the two lowest strings gives you the same tune  but 
> obviously in a higher key.
>

I've got one kicking around somewhere - rescued it from a jumble sale when I 
was in my teens, and spent a lot of time sanding and polishing it up so it 
looked really nice. I put black guitar strings on it because I couldn't 
afford proper uke strings. (I was an impoverished teenager!) I was told to 
tune it to My Dog Has Fleas - is that what you mean here? The bottom string 
is higher than the others where you'd expect it to be lower. I did play it a 
few times in pub sessions, but it was murder to keep in tune. It just had 
simple tuning pegs like a violin (and they weren't even tapered like violin 
ones) so they kept slipping. I guess it was just a cheap uke. It looks 
pretty though, and kids especially like the mini-guitar look of it. (I 
wonder where it's gone? I thought it was... um...)

ally-digging-through-boxes-under-the-table

>>
> I've got one kicking around somewhere - rescued it from a jumble sale when 
> I was in my teens, and spent a lot of time sanding and polishing it up so 
> it looked really nice. I put black guitar strings on it because I couldn't 
> afford proper uke strings. (I was an impoverished teenager!) I was told to 
> tune it to My Dog Has Fleas - is that what you mean here? The bottom 
> string is higher than the others where you'd expect it to be lower. I did 
> play it a few times in pub sessions, but it was murder to keep in tune. It 
> just had simple tuning pegs like a violin (and they weren't even tapered 
> like violin ones) so they kept slipping.


I know you are an expert with musical items and I'm not, but wouldn't a 
little powdered resin on each peg have solved that problem?

Rex

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> "Ron(UK)"  wrote in message 
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> 
>> There`s a whole range of Ukulele from the tiny soprano to a bass. A 
>>ukulele has four strings tuned with the same intervals as a guitar cept 
>>the forth (top) string is higher, usually ADF#B or GCEA so if you can play 
>>the guitar chords to a tune it easily moves onto the ukulele - same 
>>fingering less the two lowest strings gives you the same tune  but 
>>obviously in a higher key.
>>
> 
> I've got one kicking around somewhere - rescued it from a jumble sale when I 
> was in my teens, and spent a lot of time sanding and polishing it up so it 
> looked really nice. I put black guitar strings on it because I couldn't 
> afford proper uke strings. (I was an impoverished teenager!) I was told to 
> tune it to My Dog Has Fleas - is that what you mean here? The bottom string 
> is higher than the others where you'd expect it to be lower. 


yes A D F# B  or G C E A  All Dogs Feast(on) Bones  or God Created Eve 
and Adam  the second fret on the fourth string is in unison with the 
first string


>  I did play it a 
> few times in pub sessions, but it was murder to keep in tune. It just had 
> simple tuning pegs like a violin (and they weren't even tapered like violin 
> ones) so they kept slipping. I guess it was just a cheap uke. It looks 
> pretty though, and kids especially like the mini-guitar look of it. (I 
> wonder where it's gone? I thought it was... um...)
> 
> ally-digging-through-boxes-under-the-table 
> 
> 


You must get it out and play with it...  erm.. the uke I mean.

Some cheap uke`s have untapered pegs and a little screw in the top of 
the string post to spread it to make it bind in the wood, it`s a simple 
matter to use a tapered reamer in the headstock and get some proper 
wooded pegs with the same taper, or better still, put some cheap single 
guitar tuners on there for a few quid.

janglingly
Ron O Ukulele


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Norcot wrote:

>>I've got one kicking around somewhere - rescued it from a jumble sale when 
>>I was in my teens, and spent a lot of time sanding and polishing it up so 
>>it looked really nice. I put black guitar strings on it because I couldn't 
>>afford proper uke strings. (I was an impoverished teenager!) I was told to 
>>tune it to My Dog Has Fleas - is that what you mean here? The bottom 
>>string is higher than the others where you'd expect it to be lower. I did 
>>play it a few times in pub sessions, but it was murder to keep in tune. It 
>>just had simple tuning pegs like a violin (and they weren't even tapered 
>>like violin ones) so they kept slipping.
> 
> 
> I know you are an expert with musical items and I'm not, but wouldn't a 
> little powdered resin on each peg have solved that problem?
> 
> Rex 
> 
> 

Violin peg compound it`s called,  but I think it will only work on 
tapered pegs.

Ron le Beau

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