![]() So I just need to nudge the action a bit from where most uke pickers keep it. Also they feel much like higher tension strings so the need to have just a tab higher action to compensate for three strings being tuned a step low, and one string two steps down, is mitigated just a bit. I love the tensile and string-to-string consistency of the Aguila Red strings. One of the issues with some uke strings is that the plain strings are often quite a bit more mellow than the wound strings, and sometimes using a drop 4 th (wound string – tuned an octave lower than the “my dog has fleas” standard) exacerbates this issue. ![]() Tuning down a step from standard also gives me another voice between my soprano, (as well as concert, and my-dog-has-fleas tenor) and my baritone ukes. That slack key pattern makes an open B-Flat chord. So my tuning is F (wound 4th string), B-Flat, D, and high F. Today, my go-to set up for tenor uke is to tune the uke a step lower than standard, drop the first string another step, and use a wound 4th string. It was easier on my hands AND I could translate a ton of cool banjo stuff since the fingering closely resembles open G tuning on a 5-string banjo. Then when my joints started giving me peedoodles I discovered slack key tunings for uke and guitar as a bit of a compensation. Now, I learnt the uke long before I ever touched a banjo, but I really took to the banjo. Y’all ever head the old axiom, “when you are a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail?” Such is the life of a banjo player. ![]() Just a quick note about my tenor ukulele set up that I thought y’all might like to try… ![]()
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