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| Posted: Sun Jun 7th, 2009 03:31 pm |
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Folks, I play a little baritone and have not had much experience with other uke sizes. The other day I was ina store and picked up a concert uke in standard tuning. To my surprise, the chords I have been using on the baritone tuned DGBE worked just the same. How is that possible? Eric
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| Posted: Sun Jun 7th, 2009 06:38 pm |
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A concert uke is usually tuned gCEA or aDF#B while a baritone is usually tuned DGBE. If you put a capo on the fifth fret of your baritone, you'd get a GCEA tuning and if you put it on the seventh fret you'd get a ADF#B tuning. The relationship between the strings remains the same, but you are transposing to a different key. A similar question was answered by hrlarson in another thread: http://www.ezfolk.com/forums/forum19/7393.html Last edited on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 06:39 pm by Jim Yates ____________________ Jim http://www.myspace.com/jimyates http://www.myspace.com/kirbyandyates http://www.myspace.com/kirbyyatesmazurek |
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| Posted: Thu Jun 11th, 2009 01:27 am |
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What store were you in? I find very few that even know how to tune a Ukulele, so it's a safe bet they tuned to the only thing they know. Although it can be done, it usually sounds pretty bad as the strings are way to slack and floppy, leading to buzzing and other unpleasant noises. With some experimentation (or a visit to http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum ) you can find a set of heavier strings that will adequately lower the pitch to Baritone Uke (a.k.a. guitar) tuning.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12th, 2009 02:30 am |
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Dave Alexander Approved 
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The chord shapes are often the same -- but sound very different on the two ukes. A "D" on a baritone is a "G" in standard tuning, which means if you picked up a concert, then formed a D as if you held a baritone...it would be a familiar sound, but not really a D. (Of course, everytime I say something definitively, there's an alternative tuning I have not considered. So, experts, cut some slack, kay?) Or, somebody tuned it wrong -- but I think it'd sound pretty sloppy. I have heard of a set of strings which would allow you to take a tenor "down to" baritone tuning. Last edited on Fri Jun 12th, 2009 02:46 am by Dave Alexander ____________________ "My ukulele playing IS entertaining. Just not always to others." -- Dave Alexander |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 12th, 2009 03:52 am |
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I have those strings on my Tenor now. Aquila makes them and they're a "reentrant" tuning with the D being an octave higher than the typical guitar D. All other strings are tuned the same as a guitar, which is normal tuning for a Baritone. I suppose a low D would be too low for the shorter Tenor neck to handle without getting floppy. As it stands now, I really like my Tenor in this reentrant Baritone tuning, although it means most Ukelele books aren't that much use anymore. But the good news is, all my guitar books work.
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