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Baritone ukulele strings
Anyone have thoughts, opinions, experiences to relate, recommendations?
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There are many esoteric discussions on the UU forum of people who want to turn their baritone into something else and wonder what kind of strings they could use for that. If you want to use your baritone as it was intende, then just get a regular baritone string set for dgbe tuning. Aquila is a brand that makes great uke strings for all sizes.
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Just standard bari tuning, DGBE.
Looking for recommendations based on personal experience.
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I've been playing baris for many years and own four custom ones. For my baritones, I use a Thomastic-Infeld CF35 for the D, CF30 for the G and Savarez Alliance KF543R for B and KF542R for E.
These are classical strings meant for a longer scale so using them for the next higher string is perfect for baritones. This is the combo for a wound 3&4th low G tuning. This combo and the Uke Logic stringsets have been the go to string for those of us who used to use Southcoast Strings before Dirk, the owner, passed away Uke Logic strings just came out that are made by Joel at The Ukulele Site many are finding ideal. Also Living Waters makes a good all unwound set. Personally I dislike Aquilas. |
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Thanks!
I've seen some recommendations for Galli strings, made in Italy. Has anyone here tried them?
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Let me look if they make strings for baritones other then reentrant tuning, but a brand a friend turned me onto is Freemont Blackline ukulele strings. Honestly, I like the feel of them on my tenor ukuleles, so if that is any basis, I'd go with that brand.
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okay, so upon a quick search, I was mistaken. The set I was thinking they made was actually baritone strings for a tenor sized ukulele. https://www.stringsbymail.com/fremon...nor-22562.html I shot a message to a friend of mine about what baritone ukulele strings he uses, and he swears to this for his baritone https://www.stringsbymail.com/luthie...101-17563.html
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...................... BTW, I'm asking because the internet is full of posts with advice like "take the X string from a set of Savarez reds. and the Y from Aquila light-medium-heavies, and then I like to use 25-pound-test fishing line for . . . " and I just want a set of strings that will sound good.
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I totally get that with my tenors. I prefer low G and have gotten into wound low G with my Pepe Romero mahogany grand tenor, so I bought the set he uses. However, my first solid wood uke (a Farida solid Koa prototype) I had in unwound low G with the Freemont black lines. Because Freemont does not make a dedicated set for wound low G (they sell one individually) for the restring I am having done on the Farida, I am having them use the wound low G from Freemont and the CEA from a regular set of Freemont tenor strings. So I get it all too well.
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I just ordered these "Southcoast" strings that Oasis just introduced. Looking forward to trying them. Just what I was looking for....fluorocarbon with smooth wound 3rd and 4th.
https://store.ukelikethepros.com/pro...ound-d-wound-g
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