Hello from West Virginia

Hello everyone - nice to be a part of this forum. I collect vintage ukuleles, Cushman furniture, vintage jewelry, and pretty much anything else. Looking forward to reading through the site.

 

Thank you for joining us, Igarcia!

Debora

 

greetings

 

Welcome

 

From an X-West Virginian to another --- WELCOME!

 

Welcome!

 

Hi Igarcia!

Welcome to Antiquers.............

 

Greetings, Igarcia!!

 

Welcome!

 

Thank you for the nice welcome!

 

Hi Igarcia and WELCOME to ANTIQUERS!!!!

 

Welcome! Vintage ukes are nice; my wife has a sweet little Johnny Marvin with a beautiful resonant voice, and an older but not vintage luthier-made tiple, often considered to be part of the uke family. I once owned, but sold, a vintage tiple whose maker I now have forgotten...it will probably come to me around midnight. (For those unfamiliar, a tiple has 10 strings; tuning similar to a standard uke, but with some strings doubled or tripled, and in octaves for the lowest string and the two middle courses, i.e. A4 A3 • D4 D3 D4 • F#4 F#3 F#4 • B3 B3. I tuned mine a step lower: G4 G3, C4 C3 C4, E4 E3 E4, A3 A3. Tiples can be hard or impossible to tune....some chords have the same pitch sounded on as many as 6 different strings; and once those are tuned, you hope that other chords will still be in tune...good luck with that. But when in tune, the sound is astonishingly rich for a tiny instrument; imagine a uke that sounds like a 12-string guitar).

 

Very nice - a vintage tiple is on the bucket list. For right now, four strings is about all I can handle. I have a Silvertone similar to the Johnny Marvin.