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Original Post By:
Guest_Gerald Ross
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Date: 1/28/2005 |
Aloha all,
I've been surfing the web and came
across the amazing music of John
King on solo uke (gotta get these
CD's quick). Question: what type
(size) of uke(s) does he use. To
me they sound like soprano or
concert. Thanks in advance. |
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Posted By:
Guest_Human Uke
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Date: 1/28/2005 |
| I also admire John King's works.
To my best knowledge, for his Bach
CD he used a 4-string/spruce-
top/koa-back standard uke that's
custom-made by Italian luthier
Gioachino Giussani; for the CD in
Jumpin' Jims "Classical Ukulele"
book, he used a plastic-finger
board/natural-top concert fluke.
When I saw his preformance in the
2004 Uke Fest West, he was using
his concert fluke, but he is also
known to play a 5-string spruce-
top/mahogany-back standard
Giussani when performing in other
uke festivals. John King tuned his
uke reentrant A-D-F#-B in his Bach
CD, which to me really creates the
heavenly sound that well suits
Bach's music. You can find
pictures of his Giussani ukes here
(remove space): http://www.nalu-
music.com/nalu/giussani.html
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Posted By:
Guest_WOW!
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Date: 1/28/2005 |
| Don't think I've ever seen a
pinless bridge before. Anyone
else out there make them?
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Posted By:
Guest_Dave Means
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Date: 1/28/2005 |
| Yes... I do. www.glyphukulele.com
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Posted By:
Guest_Shindig
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Date: 1/28/2005 |
| Just curious...What are the other
strings tuned to (on the 5 and 6
string) as it looks like they're
not paired up strings, rather
additional courses.
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Posted By:
Guest_CarlH
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Date: 1/29/2005 |
| If not a unison pair of strings,
they would be tuned in octaves. In
the 1500's the MY of MDHF was tuned
both high and low. Depending on the
music, it could also be unison -
either high or low.
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Posted By:
Guest_Confused
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Date: 1/29/2005 |
| Carl, why not tune like a requinto
or charango or any number of
various other instruments? Octaves
can be such a drag sometimes.
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Posted By:
Guest_CarlH
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Date: 1/29/2005 |
| Confused, one would do that for
historical reasons. The octave
tuning was the tuning of the times
way back when. Or so the scholars
generally agree. I've got about 300
pages of tablature for instruments
tuned in such a way by Murcia,LeRoy
and Gorlier&Morlaye. Tuning in
unison quite often will mostly
work, but in some tablatures the
course tuned in octaves gets used
as both melody and bass.
Harmonically, it would always be
correct. For an example of a 1550
uke, see:
http://lkbrownviolins.com/renaissance_guitar.htm
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Posted By:
Guest_CarlH
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Date: 1/30/2005 |
| I'll take the confused award.
Somehow I started thinking of
double course instruments - and
King's Giussani's don't qualify.
Ooops.
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