Handley_Page
Draco interdum Vincit
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After today's urgent consult, I'm fast-tracked for a cardiac procedure with real surgeons and everything. That'll be a few weeks yet. I'll slog along till then,
Generally, steel strings will break an 'uke because neck tension. Some will say that a dozen broken 'ukes make a good start. Feh. Anyway, Silk-n-Steel strings can be used for a more metallic sound. Soprano 'ukes will sound plinky with any strings; larger 'ukes, less so. But down-tuning reduces plinkiness, as does changing high 1st and 4th strings to low ones.
'Uke-like devices built for steel strings exist. I own a century-old tiple (TEE-play), basically a 10-steel-string tenor 'uke. In fact, it's the ancestor of the tenor. The tiple was popular with small jazz and blues groups pre-WWII because it is LOUD for its size! A tenor body really projects.
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A couple hours past sunset. Dark out, and snowy, a few inches on the ground, and we must motorvate down our dirt road in the morning, ay yi yi. I look into the night's void and try not to think of Shakespeare. That's easy.
Good Luck with the medics.
I'd never heard of a tiple. then I found: "Torbellino de la Suite Nº1 - Tiple Solista" on Youtube