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I have been using Tabledit (a commercial tablature editor/creator/player) for many years as it has been great when making odd musical intruments as i do as a hobby. I know it "costs" but I like it.Anyway, I have been searching around for ukulele…
Read more…I see a few of you have made bass ukes but some ideas of the specs for such an instrument would be good.I have an idea i would not want to amp it! (Willing to change my mind) I have whipper snipper chord for strings. Probably not an upright model,…
Read more…The Nation keeps all the photos and videos which members upload, but i cant find a similar "store" for the audio files that are uploaded. Can some kind person point me to where I can listen to them i.e. more than the 20 available at any on time?…
Read more…In fact to start with a definition would be in order. They seem mostly to have 1 string but 2 strings are not unknown. Some seem to be played by "striking/drumming" some by strumming/picking. The bottle is almost part of it. In my nievity i thought…
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I meant to ask, how does the hurdy gurdy sound and what problems did you have constructing the instrument and how easy was it to set up? Am I correct in assuming that notes are stopped or fretted by a kind of keyboard?
It's the kind of thing that I would love to build, but I know that I never will.
there are a number of things that helped in this construction. The neck is, compared with a normal bass, is very short; the hard wood, through the body design; the thick (ish) finger board and rose wood neck binding; and most importantly the relatively low tension of the "strings".
the cigar box ukulele 'bass' has a scale length of 50cm - 20 inches. Usual (ish) baritone ukulele size. The neck width at the nut is 35mm and at the 12th fret is 45mm.
Looks like a very involved build! Its certainly very eye catching... any chance of a sound demo?? I love this kind of experimentation, good work!
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