Two weeks after I got my first ukulele (a Lava U), I met up with an old friend, someone who’d been playing for a few years … she was going to give me a brief primer and pointers.
The first thing I noticed when she took her Uke from the Case, was that the top string was brown, it didn’t match the others. I asked, she said “It’s a Low G”, then explained it to me.
I was flabbergasted and floored. To my ear it sounded great, so I ordered a set of D’Addario fluorocarbons with Low G. After restringing my uke and hearing the results, I decided I could not live without them.
Since then I’ve met a few people who don’t like fluorocarbons and dislike the entire idea of a Low G string. They say it’s no longer a “real ukulele” if it isn’t tuned re-entrant.
Not sure who’s right and who is not, but from my view, I can’t hear it any other way. I’m sold on Low G and completely sold on fluorocarbons. I bought D’Addarios for my first five or six ukes. Then I stumbled upon Worth Browns when I bought a Uke from “The Ukulele Site“, they are now my Default (Thank you, Ukulele Site!).
From my view and to my ear, this is the way to go. Is it really a “ukulele” if it’s tuned to anything but reentrant? I’ve been told by people who consider themselves expert. What do you think?
There are a million places to buy strings, I’ve had good luck with two specific online merchants:
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Ordered from both of these merchants, they ship quickly, follow-up on orders and offer occasional deals via email. Pricing is close enough, to where that will never be a deciding factor for you.
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