I recently completed this hybrid guitar/ukulele and I'm wondering if there is a name for this type of hybrid? it has a rather small, thin box, through neck design, rod piezo pickup, 21" scale and steel strings tuned like a uke - GCEA. Being in Hawaii, ukes are popular and I thought it would be an interesting project. I may restring it to DGEA, but for now I'm leaving it like it is. Anyone else built something like this?
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Long-Scale Tennor Uke?
That's kind of what it is in this tuning, although the steel strings complicate things. I have a couple of ukulele playing friends I am going to have test it out and give me an opinion on it.
If it sounds as good as it looks call it anything you want. Nice work!
Thanks! retuning to GCEG give a nice Hawaiian open tuning and works with a slide.
I would call that a baritone ukulele sort of length. Usually tuned DGEA might also be callex a tenor guitar depending on wind direction.
What happened to my keyboard?DGBE I meant not DGEA.
At this size the difference between calling it a baritone uke or a tenor guitar may just be in the tuning and choice of either nylon or steel strings.
How about a baritone uke's standard tuning (DGBE), but with a high D to sorta' mimic the sound of a smaller ukulele's re-entrant tuning?
This one's going to be in an art gallery in Holualoa, HI so I am going to leave it strung GCEA and build another short scale CBG with the re-entrant tuning. That's the trouble with CBGs, you can't build just one!
Then the question - nylon or steel strings?
Laid back, cool, artsy; love Holualoa (which just happens to have the best coffee in the world! ; ).
Congrats on the gallery exhibit. Will you and/or your uke be there in November for the art show?
Regarding string choice for this exhibition, I don't see any other option... ^^
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