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Brian Lemin's Discussions
Awesome metal slides for $1.50
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Sound ports
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Tail Piece grommets
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WOW, the Dremel fret slotting machine.
That is too cool I have got to make one of those.
Does it work real good?
Has anyone use a tone plate in a 3 string CBG with a through-neck? Just wondering what sorta tone it will give the CBG, or if it even sounds good in a CBG.
Chordie.com has a conversion tool for most of their tabs. Google "Uke tabs" or "Ukulele tab and you'll find a gazillion or two". Dominator , Ukester Brown, The Ukulele Club of Santa Cruz. Meetup.com Ukulele Club of Las Vegas found under the "more",…
I have been using Tabledit (a commercial tablature editor/creator/player) for many years as it has been great when making odd musical intruments as i do as a hobby. I know it "costs" but I like it.Anyway, I have been searching around for ukulele t…
A bit off topic re strings. But can you use "ordinary" soprano G strings for a low G tuned tenor uke? I have mine tuned to low G but it seems very "slack" (not to be confused with slack tuning whatever that is!) Perhaps i have to use a guitar nylon…
Great observation and makes sense to a non physicist! I am sure that volume inside the body has some effect too, that is why I was looking at the Mexican acoustic bass guitar. This is the fun thing about CBGs and instrument making.
I will be talkin…
I have been playing with ideas about volume in my head. The standard ukulele/guitar construction has the strings very much parallel to the body, with a small angle to where the strings attach to the body. The physics of that connection don't put ver…
I have sat here looking at that pic for while. So much about it that i like. How have you handled the tension of four bass strings?
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Comment Wall (41 comments)
- At 1:22pm on April 18, 2010,
Yellowbelly Flatt said…
- Sorry to hear of your health problems. I hope you make a total recovery soon.
I meant to ask, how does the hurdy gurdy sound and what problems did you have constructing the instrument and how easy was it to set up? Am I correct in assuming that notes are stopped or fretted by a kind of keyboard?
It's the kind of thing that I would love to build, but I know that I never will.
- At 5:01am on April 18, 2010,
Yellowbelly Flatt said…
- OUCH! I bet that hurt.
- At 4:01am on April 18, 2010,
Yellowbelly Flatt said…
- Ref 'bass' ukulele neck............
there are a number of things that helped in this construction. The neck is, compared with a normal bass, is very short; the hard wood, through the body design; the thick (ish) finger board and rose wood neck binding; and most importantly the relatively low tension of the "strings".
- At 3:01am on April 18, 2010,
Yellowbelly Flatt said…
- Hi Brian,
the cigar box ukulele 'bass' has a scale length of 50cm - 20 inches. Usual (ish) baritone ukulele size. The neck width at the nut is 35mm and at the 12th fret is 45mm.
- At 6:58am on October 14, 2009,
Roosterman said… - Hi mate - just a quick link you might enjoy re: spinning reso cones. The video suggests that with the right material and know-how, spinning cones is childs play - without heat! Il be trying again tomorrow with some much thinner material, so Il keep you posted!
- At 9:22pm on October 12, 2009,
Diane in Chicago said… - We are all still awaiting a sound sample from that HG! It is so incredibly cool!
- At 7:19am on October 10, 2009,
Randy S. Bretz said… - Hey Brian, the wood slide is really nice because it`s light to wear on the finger compared to the heavy bone , but it doesn`t produce the great sound that the bone does. But it does have a sound of it`s own. That was just a request from a member to see if I could make one out of wood. He will give it the test that it needs, I can`t wait to get his feedback on it`s performance. I got some feedback from Shane on the bone slide I made him, he said it`s unblievable the sounds the my bone slides produce.
- At 6:38am on September 29, 2009,
Will Carter said… - Hey Brian, Amazing effort mate - only prob is now I want one but don't have a clue where to start. Wish I'd built it :)
- At 5:16am on September 21, 2009,
Roosterman said…
- Believe me Brian, when Im limited to just 2 words, that IS speechless!!! hehe
Looks like a very involved build! Its certainly very eye catching... any chance of a sound demo?? I love this kind of experimentation, good work!
- At 11:23am on September 13, 2009,
Sounds of the Nation said… - glad you found it. hope you find some sounds you like
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