![]() ![]() ![]() So the expectation was a similar set for the Baritone…Īfter fitting them (more on that later) and tuning up for a fair while, some playing was attempted.Īfter returning from the Melbourne Uke Festival benefit at The Bridge in Castlemaine, I can report that others who tried both the Tenor and Baritone made very kind comments about the tone and sound. Worked wonderfully well and attracted much favourable comment. These were all ‘Red’ strings, nothing wound. Well, it was surprising to us after trying the Low G GCEA set on the Tanglewood TU-4 Tenor. Surprising to find two wound strings (D & G) in the bass with a pair of Red strings (B & E) for the top. Well, we have tried the linear tuning DGBE Aquila Reds on the Baritone. The plan is to try a set of Aquila Red DGBE (low D) next, and see how that works. Still hesitating on that! They suit the instrument very well, imho. On my beloved TU-4 the black strings work so well that I have hesitated to replace them with the set of Aquila that was purchased with it in December 2014. That’s g & A in Nylgut, C & E in the black original strings. On the second one we left the original C & E black strings in place, which gives what we think is a slightly better string balance on these instruments. ![]() Think that may be the root of the problem, but it’s -very- hard to modify, especially with my eyesight. The Tanglewood bridge is very smart, but it relies on a sharp-edged slot to capture the knot. This kept breaking A-strings – until I spent 5 days winding it up slowly until pitch stable. So we got another set of these for the other TU-5. So we tried a set of Aquila NylGut GCEA Baritone strings on one instrument, and all was well after only one A-string breakage. Wound up, but 2 semitones flat from gCEA works pretty well, but my head is no longer up to dynamic transposition on the fly. But the A-string was -very- tight indeed. Bridge is a bit sharp-edged, so I have my suspicions. When wound up to gCEA, the A string would break without fail, at the bridge knot. On these black strings traditional Baritone DGBE tuning was floppy and lacked response…. A lovely instrument, but the anonymous black strings fitted from new just do not work as well as the similar ones on our TU-4 Tenor. We have had experience of several Tanglewood TU-5 Baritones. On eBayīaritone strings ukulele, 3, “”, “string” inlay So it might be worth contacting the person selling them to make sure what you get is what you want. The only problem is that it isn’t always clear what you’re getting. You can get strings that are DGBE with the D tuned an octave higher (giving the strings the same re-entrant relationship as on a standard ukulele) and you can get strings for GCEA tuning with the G either high or low. To answer the question: yes, you can tune a baritone ukulele like a standard ukulele, but you need the right strings. I get more people asking me about baritone ukulele strings than I do any other string related query. Of course, it gets more complicated than that. That’s the information you’ll read most places. They also differ from the standard ukulele as they are not in re-entrant tuning i.e. They are tuned to DGBE (the same as the top four strings of a guitar). The standard baritone ukulele strings are lower than the standard ukulele tuning. ![]()
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