I forgot to mention (other than as a re-entrant string for strumming and clawhammer), the main reason for a 4th string is to give you another string to help you find more notes to form chords. With this is mind, I'm not sure ADAD is the best tuning choice for those whishing to play chords. Need to mix it up a little, like maybe use the high 4 strings from the guitar standard tuning: DGBe; but that will also require a chromatic fretboard. If you are really into chordal music, I'd recommend a 4-string chromatically freted instrument (tenor guitar, baritone uke, uke, etc.) Diatonic is too limited for serious chordal playing... you got only 3 strings and fewer fret per octave to play with. The ADAD tuning is more keeping with the dulcimer playing.
$5.00 an hour is pretty good. In China, its more like 5 yuan (about 83 cents an hour). So, for me, it's a labor of love and not profit. I need to find a way to smuggle them into the States w/o having to pay big bucks for shipping. In China, I can buy (and have bought) cheap factory ukuleles for about $12.50 U.S. That's what I'm trying to sell against. Not much margin. If I were a real businessman, I'd import to the States cheap Chinese ukes.
Rand Moore
I forgot to mention (other than as a re-entrant string for strumming and clawhammer), the main reason for a 4th string is to give you another string to help you find more notes to form chords. With this is mind, I'm not sure ADAD is the best tuning choice for those whishing to play chords. Need to mix it up a little, like maybe use the high 4 strings from the guitar standard tuning: DGBe; but that will also require a chromatic fretboard. If you are really into chordal music, I'd recommend a 4-string chromatically freted instrument (tenor guitar, baritone uke, uke, etc.) Diatonic is too limited for serious chordal playing... you got only 3 strings and fewer fret per octave to play with. The ADAD tuning is more keeping with the dulcimer playing.
-Rand.
Jul 10, 2012
Rand Moore
$5.00 an hour is pretty good. In China, its more like 5 yuan (about 83 cents an hour). So, for me, it's a labor of love and not profit. I need to find a way to smuggle them into the States w/o having to pay big bucks for shipping. In China, I can buy (and have bought) cheap factory ukuleles for about $12.50 U.S. That's what I'm trying to sell against. Not much margin. If I were a real businessman, I'd import to the States cheap Chinese ukes.
-Rand.
Jul 10, 2012
Low Budget Luthier
dont b suprised if u see me build one. i got 3 cheap fiddles
Jul 11, 2012