I want to use the standard banjo tuning no high tuned drone just GBDG
What nylon strings should I buy?
Inquiring minds want to know. I want to use my UKE in my car.
Don't guess please know
Tom
It's a bit jangly, but I've tuned ukes to the 5th, 3rd, 2nd, and 1st strings just with regular uke strings. You'll need something thick to get that 4th string to sound nice if you're doing 4/3/2/1 instead of 5/3/2/1, though.
I like this calculator:
futuremillennium.github.io/Str...lculator/
You might try a set of Worth Brown low G. They are a little bit more money, but are long enough you can get two sets out of them.
I use guitar Classical D strings for my low G. Silver over silk. They'll give you the sound you want.
Aquila makes low G sets for soprano, concert, tenor scale ukes. Since they're normally tuned GCEA you can just detune the high strings a step and these will work fine for your purpose.
I have a baritone uke. Normally they're tuned GDBE, like a guitar. I just tuned it to GDBD and my chords were the same as on the banjo. No 5th string to bounce off of, but I found myself doing an air pluck on the non existent 5th string to keep my picking and rhythm. It works.
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Originally posted by TybaltI want to use the standard banjo tuning no high tuned drone just GBDG
What nylon strings should I buy?
Inquiring minds want to know. I want to use my UKE in my car.
Don't guess please know
Tom
Without knowing what size (scale), no one is going to know. Everyone has to guess.
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