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How high can Ukelele strings tune too
Those strings are pretty loose. I bet they can go at least six notes higher without any risk of brakage?
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Give it a shot & report back.
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Same answer as always - until they break.
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Ukelele strings are pretty elastic. I bet they are harder to break than upright bass strings even. I've once gotten the C up to F
Last edited by guitar344; 04-22-2019 at 10:57 AM. |
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unfortunately not high enough to be out of the range of human hearing. Good luck though
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which size uke? On a soprano, I don't like to go higher than D tuning (a,D,F#,B) but you can go till the strings break, or, more likely, the bridge pops off.
Concerts and tenors I don't like to go higher than C tuning, (g,C,E,A), but for the best tone, my tenors are all Bb tuning.
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While it might be possible to tune a soprano to F, I certainly wouldn't advise doing it for any length of time. Besides... many of them begin to sound very tinny even at D.... cranking them up to F would probably not help the tone at all.
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Go ahead and give it a try like others have said. Just wear some eye protection. But seriously. What's the goal?
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Nice ukes are built much more delicately than guitars, so I'd be careful.
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To see how high they can go. I doubt they snap. Ukelele strings are almost unbreakable. Soprano uke's are about the scale as mandolin. You can probably get the A up to E.
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I have a hard time imagining the strings being loose if I continued tightening them up another 3 half steps to F tuning (c,F,A,D)
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Easy to tune too low if you aren’t ingrained with my dog has fleas tuning and just use a tuner. Best to find a sound sample and go from there. Here’s one
https://www.fleamarketmusic.com/e-tuner/default.asp You can tune too high, strings can break, bridges can dislodge, tops can distort, intonation can suck. Echoing Swamp Yankee here. Tunings can vary, but ukes tend to sound and play best within their standard ranges, gCEA, aDF#B, or with the high g and a as low. Alternate tunings are good too, like fCFA, or gDGB. I think a taropatch sounds good tuned a step down, but you have 8 strings and still plenty of tension, and not just from those within earshot. |
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It's been a while since I had a nylon string classical guitar, but I've strung my daughter's uke a few times.
I'd have two concerns. 1-Will I damage the ukulele? 2-How will those strings sound when the tension is released? I'm sure the strings will stretch. (I remember what a pain it was with my classical guitar for the strings to finally stay in tune.) I'm not so sure if they will go back to standard tuning with a similar sound. YMMV - I was dropped on my head a lot as a child.
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