Help: double bass ukulele

Subject: help double base ukelele
From: GUEST,fleetwood
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 07:00 PM

a friend of mine recently obtained a three string double base uke or banjo type instrument but is unsure how to tune it does anybody have any information on the instrument or how it should be tuned?

Subject: RE: BS: help double base ukelele
From: Callie at work
Date: 07 Mar 01 - 08:02 PM

Try the Lark in the Morning website. They have a catalogue which features instruments I'd never imagined could exist, and quite often list tunings for string instruments.

I'll check my printed catalogue at home tonight and post tomorrow if I come up with an answer.

Callie

Subject: RE: Help: double bass ukelele
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 08 Mar 01 - 01:58 AM

If it has three strings, it might be related to a balalaika. I've never heard of an ukulele with three strings. Unless it was broken. A friend of mine plays a HUGE bass balalaika--he stands up and rests one corner (balalaikas are triangular) on the ground. It has an amazing sound.

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: Help: double bass ukelele
From: LR Mole
Date: 08 Mar 01 - 11:59 AM

Gretsch used to make very strange things, and I think they made an electrofied uke for Arthur Godfrey--a four-stringer, though (the uke, not Arthur, if anyone remembers who he was [HowEEhyeh!], on a full-sized f-hole body).Eddie Condon used to play one of those, too.