The stretched-skin style body produces a sound with audible vibration, much different to the smoother sound made by wooden ukulele bodies.
#Six string uke tuner skin
The body of the banjolele is made out of a stretched skin (most commonly mass-manufactured using man-made materials). The difference in sound in this case occurs because the body of the instrument is different, rather than the tuning. The guitalele is not tuned using ukulele-styled re-entrant tuning.īanjo Ukulele - The banjo ukulele or banjolele is tuned exactly the same as a standard-tuned ukulele - G4-C4-E4-A4. The added A and D-strings make this instrument exactly equivalent to playing a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret, while the G-C-E-A tuning allows the player to play standard ukulele chords.
The tuning of the guitalele has been set out like this to accommodate both the ukulele and the guitar sides of playing. The guitalele has six strings, and is tuned A-D-G-C-E-A. Guitar Ukulele - The guitar ukulele or guitalele is another more recent ukulele hybrid that is great as a beginner instrument for children as it can lead on to playing both the guitar and the ukulele. Different companies manufacture very different models of bass ukulele, so recommended tuning may vary between model. The bass ukulele is standard-tuned exactly the same as the standard-tuning on the bass guitar - E3-A3-D4-G4. Do you have an interesting type of ukulele? Let us know how you tune it in the comments below!īass Ukulele - The Bass ukulele is a recent ukulele hybrid which has quite an amazing similarity in sound to that of the upright-bass (otherwise known as the double bass). Here we have highlighted the different tunings of a few of the most popular ukulele types. The bass ukulele and the sopranino/piccolo uke both have different standard tuning as they fill different tonal roles to the G4-C4-E4-A4 standard-tuned ukulele. Some four-string types of ukulele also require different tuning, especially those ukuleles that fill different tonal roles to the standard ukulele types.
This is particularly true for the kinds of ukulele that have additional strings, like the guitar ukulele (guitalele) and the 8-string ukulele.
Some of the other less common kinds of ukulele have different standard-tuning to the basic four types of uke.
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