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.