Hi everyone, I come to this wonderful CBG community indirectly - I got my kids a very nice loog guitar (www.loogguitars.com) and we are all hooked. I suppose you've heard about it, but just in case, it is a 3 string guitar for kids with nylon strings - it's Loog I version is even an hommage to the CBG. I am talking about the acoustig, not the electric model.
Now, playing it for me is a bit tough - while I am intimidated by a normal guitar's huge neck, the loog's is really small - ideal for kids, but hard for adult sized hands. I would really like to have an "adult" sized loog, as close as I can get it to my kids' so we can practice together doing exactly the same - i.e., same tuning, same nylon strings, with frets, chromatic and not diatonic, etc. - just a tad bigger. I've looked around, and I cannot find an alternative - ukuleles have 4 strings, strumsticks are diatonic and have steel strings, I don't know about its tuning but the cuban tres has "double" strings...
CBGs are as close as I can get to this, I guess, with 3 strings, but they have steel strings and the nice kits I saw on amazon are fretless. I am not very good with DIY but I guess I can assemble one of these kits. Are there any ready made/industrial 3 string guitars? Any recommendation? An option would be having one custom made based, say, on a baritone ukulele, although that would probably be too expensive.
Thanks!
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I think I will go the Baritone Uke route. Again, very new bie questions - to "match" a Loog,
1-Do I need to re-string the uke, or just retune the included strings?
2-Is it a problem if the loog and the uke don't have the exact same number of frets?
Thanks again!
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