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Topic: Lucy, 'splain this instrument, please |
Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 11:15 am |
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Ukulele, Mandola, Uke
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8 String Solid Mahogany Dolphin Ukulele, Mandola, Uke...........
........One Steel String and Seven Nylon........... |
Say what?! |
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Craig Stenseth
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Naperville, Illinois, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 1:10 pm
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8 string ukuleles are usually tuned G C E A (low to high), with the G and C pairs being octaves (the lower pitched G looks like the 'steel' string in your example), the E and A in unisons.
I think the 'mandola' term is incorrect in this case. They used to make different sizes of mandolin/mandola/mandocello, corresponding to violin/viola/cello. I assume this isn't one of them (it has nylon strings).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandolin_orchestra |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Jon Light
From:
Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 1:57 pm
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So then 7 nylon strings and 1 steel string is routine, you are saying.
Living and learning. |
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 3:00 pm
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| Jon Light wrote: |
So then 7 nylon strings and 1 steel string is routine, you are saying.
Living and learning. |
YES,
Just like how the low strings on a nylon string guitar have a steel windings around them.
On a 8 string tenor Uke, the low G string is steel wound, or silver wound silk string.
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 3:15 pm
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Thanks. Funny---mental vapor-lock. Somehow I totally locked out the thought of wound strings on a classical guitar----something I'm totally aware of. I guess the idea of pairing a wound string and a nylon string (as opposed to a wound string and a plain steel ala 12 string guitar) seemed impossibly odd.
This guitar maker on ebay (same folks that make that lucite lap steel we were talking about a couple of weeks ago) makes some odd stuff and I thought this might be some oddball design. |
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 4:01 pm
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I thought the correct term for an 8-string uke was taropatch.
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Lee Baucum
From:
McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 30 Nov 2008 7:02 pm
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Alvin - You are correct about the taropatch referring to the style of playing called "slack key"; however, the term taropatch has been used for many, many years, when referring to ukuleles with 4 courses of paired strings.
Here is a little write-up about Martin uke's. Scroll down and you can read about their taropatch:
Click Here
Here is a picture of a very old taropatch:
Click Here
Here is a photo of a very pretty taropatch:
Click Here
Knutsen made a strange little beast called the harp taropatch. They are very rare:
Click Here
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Alvin Blaine
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Picture Rocks, Arizona, USA
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Lee Baucum
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McAllen, Texas (Extreme South) The Final Frontier
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Posted 1 Dec 2008 1:34 am
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Yes. That's easier than saying taropatch taropatch. |
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