Barry Maz has posted a nice video explaining the ins and outs of friction tuners. (They're still my favorite: I always feel as though I'm always bumping geared tuners out of tune. Certainly, putting a uke with geared tuners into a gig bag always seems to.)
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Thanks for sharing Gary!
ReplyDeleteWell, you're in good company, Gary. Fred and Barney both agree with you about those modern stone-age tuners.
ReplyDeleteTheir steg-o-leles featured the latest and greatest in friction tuning technology.
Steg-o-lele, by the way, evolved into steg-o-lee and from there through millennia after millennia into Stagolee.
Just a little music history for Ukulelia devotees.
Now, my own friction experience mirrors that other Barney's as noted in his "Purple Ukulele Anthem" -
"Sharp for you,
Flat for me,
We make perfect harmony."
Can't beat the classics. And still the best 'ukulele anthem ever.