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Posted: Sat Jan 24th, 2009 04:44 pm

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Folks,

Can you use steel strings on a baritone ukulele? I'd like to try some blues. If not, should I just buy a tenor guitar?

Eric Mart

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Posted: Sat Jan 24th, 2009 05:23 pm

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You can play the blues on a nylon stringed instrument.

Putting steel strings on an instrument designed for nylon will likely pull the bridge loose/off and/or pull the neck loose.

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Posted: Sat Jan 24th, 2009 05:24 pm

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I wouldn't use steel strings. Even if there weren't an immediate issue, one would probably develop down the road.

Your instinct is right: a tenor guitar is braced & built properly for steel strings.

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Posted: Mon Mar 16th, 2009 02:28 am

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Latro wrote: Folks,

Can you use steel strings on a baritone ukulele? I'd like to try some blues. If not, should I just buy a tenor guitar?

Eric Mart

http://mpukuleles.com/wst_page4.php
The above site has bari ukuleles w/ steel strings (very last item on the page).

-Brett

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Posted: Mon Mar 16th, 2009 03:53 am

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That instrument was built for steel strings, But don,t try your ukulele with steel as stated before, It would do some damage

There are some tenor guitars out there if you want steel strings, I had a baby tenor from the ebay site once that played good and it was the size of a baritone ukulele. I can't think of the name , But look on ebay for tenor guitars

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Posted: Mon Mar 16th, 2009 03:50 pm

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Charlie wrote: That instrument was built for steel strings, But don,t try your ukulele with steel as stated before, It would do some damage

There are some tenor guitars out there if you want steel strings, I had a baby tenor from the ebay site once that played good and it was the size of a baritone ukulele. I can't think of the name , But look on ebay for tenor guitars

Charlie

That would be the Soaresy Baby Tenor Guitar:

http://www.infolinkmiami.com/soaresy/catalog.html

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