Re: any1 in cumbria play uke?

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> I've got one kicking around somewhere - rescued it from a jumble sale when
> I was in my teens, and spent a lot of time sanding and polishing it up so
> it looked really nice. I put black guitar strings on it because I couldn't
> afford proper uke strings. (I was an impoverished teenager!) I was told to
> tune it to My Dog Has Fleas - is that what you mean here? The bottom
> string is higher than the others where you'd expect it to be lower. I did
> play it a few times in pub sessions, but it was murder to keep in tune. It
> just had simple tuning pegs like a violin (and they weren't even tapered
> like violin ones) so they kept slipping.

I know you are an expert with musical items and I'm not, but wouldn't a
little powdered resin on each peg have solved that problem?

Rex


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