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07 Mar 01 - 07:00 PM (#413032) Subject: help double base ukelele From: GUEST,fleetwood 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? |
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07 Mar 01 - 08:02 PM (#413062) Subject: RE: BS: help double base ukelele From: Callie at work 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 |
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08 Mar 01 - 01:58 AM (#413215) Subject: RE: Help: double bass ukelele From: Mark Cohen 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 |
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08 Mar 01 - 11:59 AM (#413402) Subject: RE: Help: double bass ukelele From: LR Mole 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. |