Mouse said
Nice job! Is that a mandolin or ukulele? I just ordered a Fiddlerman ukulele and it looks a little like that. If it is a ukulele, I am going to have to learn that song because it really sounds neat!

Thanks for sharing that.

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PS, I moved your topic to Share/Other than strings (meaning other than bowed strings). We love that you shared this!

  

It's a ukulele but I have special strings that enable it to tune to GDAE.  The arrangement is for mandolin. I got the arrangement from a book I bought entitled Mandalone by Tim Connelly.

Mouse said
Oh, wow, @Paul C. That is really interesting. It sounded really neat. I really like it.

So, you get the mandolin without having to deal with tuning 8 strings, 😂😂😂!

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Thank you!  I like to play quietly, while I'm just sitting on the couch watching tv or whatever. I could never do that with my mandolin. For me, it's all about training the left hand. Then it can be translated to mandolin, violin, in theory. That's my story anyhow... 😉

ABitRusty said
thats a nice one..very peaceful sounding and enjoyed listening Paul.

  

Thank you

ELCBK said
@Paul C -

Sounded LOVELY! 🤗

I still think it's great you tuned your uke like a violin!  ...sorry, know I already said this in your 1st share.

I've hemm'd & haw'd about whether or not to do that to my ovation uke I bought (a few years before thinking about violin).  I ruined my ambition (and my fingers) by stringing it with helicore strings & might return to it if I restring with nylon.  Was kinda excited to try tuning the little 5-string Banjo-uke (I got a while back) like an extended range tenor banjo, since my violin & viola are both 5-string... then I got to thinking of the advantage of learning to play with regular tuning for chords & variation, but all a moot point cause I've been too busy to give either strummed instrument attention. 😞 

Bowing & bow hold is so important when it comes to fiddling - are you having any difficulties, or just prefer to learn the fingering first on the uke?

- Emily

  

Thank you Emily.

I play the violin every day.
I've just got some work to do before it's ready for public consumption.
And the bow is definitely causing me the most difficulty.
I can play a few songs fairly fluidly, when I know them by ear and I can do scales pretty well by ear, for the most part. My bowing is improving but slowly.  I am still trying to learn to read but it just adds one more thing, so playing by ear is nuch more natural and relaxing.

As for playing the uke, I mainly play that because it's so easy on the fingers, easy to play quietly (this is a big one for me because someone is always watching tv etc in my house or something) so it allows me to quietly rehearse and just play for fun. I played guitar and electric bass for years, so moving to the mandolin was a big jump in finger stretching. This helps with that as well and of course with the violin.

I'm thinking I might play one of those songs on the vioin and share it for critique.  I know this group would give good feedback.

Thanks again for listening and giving feedback.

Gordon Shumway said
Sounds nice.

The original tuning on a tenor uke was dGBE (nowadays they are often gCEA), so one strung GDAE might sound better than a sop tuned GDAE, but compensated saddles can making swapping the order of the strings tricky. Probably having the 4th/G string wound is a convenient arrangement in that respect. I use a red Aquila G on my tenor.

  

Thank you Gordon.

I'll have to try those strings for my tenor.  I tried finding strings that would allow me to tune the tenor to gdae and I didn't have any luck. The tenor is my favorite uke.  It's just the perfect size and has such a great tone.