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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 3133760, member: 55&quot;]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.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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