Talk:Ukulele/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 September 2021 and 22 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Rsinthespace.

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tropical bass

a ukulele is basically a tropical bass 2601:280:4A00:9590:94BB:76A9:6FD3:CBA5 (talk) 15:18, 29 May 2022 (UTC)

Contrabass vs. bass

Is the bass just a steel-stringed version of a contrabass nylon-stringed uke? This article's range chart shows a lower range for the contrabass, but the description says "the contrabass below aligns with the bass in the above table" (above tuning table shows the bass range E₁–B₃). rootsmusic (talk) 08:51, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Range chart

It would be great to have a range chart like the one at Guitar and Mandolin. -- Evertype·✆ 21:02, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

@Evertype This article has a range chart, but I don't see one in guitar or mandolin. The range chart should be cropped though. rootsmusic (talk) 08:36, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

In the sidebar for Guitar and Mandolin under "playing range" an image is given but is lacking for this article. -- Evertype·✆ 13:07, 4 October 2023 (UTC)

New table entry

@George Hernandez: I'm not so sure this table you've created is helpful -- it's quite generic to any fretted or non-fretted string instrument. That is, it doesn't say anything special about the ukulele, it's what frets or finger positions do. On the uke, it could be a bit illuminating if it showed the interesting overlap that the re-entrant string provides; that, for example, the open G string is the same note as the 3rd fret on the E string, and the open A string is the same as the second fret on the G string. You'd need to specify the notes more completely as,for example, A₄, B♭₄ and so on. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 03:29, 20 February 2023 (UTC)

Two years later, I've removed the table. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 16:37, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

Introductory section

"...tuned to GCEA." -- I'm not good at rewording things, but this needs to be rewritten because it's contradicted later in the article. In the tuning section, GCEA is called the "common tuning" for 3 of the 4 sizes of uke, but not for baritone uke. Also problematic is the sentence that reads: "They have 16–22 frets depending on the size." The article contains photos of ukuleles with 12 frets; a quick web search of uke manufacturer websites reveals that some tenors and baritones have more than 22 frets; and there's no citation for this statements. --108.20.125.25 (talk) 02:20, 30 April 2025 (UTC)