Uke Minutes 5 – How to Re-string Your Ukulele

February 18, 2008

Happy Presidents Day! Hope everyone in the U.S. is enjoying their day off. In this episode of Uke Minutes, Aldrine teaches you how to restring your ukulele. For more in depth instruction on restringing your instrument, be sure to read the article on restringing your instrument.

Also just a reminder,

Just four days left until we close T-Shirt Pre-orders. After this Friday, the price for these shirts will go back to their regular price of $18.

If you haven’t entered the Free Ukulele Contest yet either, just a couple more weeks to get your entry in. We have well over 300 entries into the hat as of now. This contest ends on February 29th and we’ll do the drawing and post the video on March 1st.

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3813 Responses2008-02-18+19%3A21%3A24rayan to “Uke Minutes 5 – How to Re-string Your Ukulele”

Uke Minutes 5 Article - How To Re-string Your Ukulele : Ukulele Underground - Learn Ukulele Online with Aldrine Guerrero on February 18th, 2008 3:22 pm

[...] How To String your Ukulele [...]
Nim0x on August 15th, 2008 4:24 pm

i was wondering if you knew what model the oscar schmidt ukulele you restringed.
Tom on August 24th, 2008 7:24 pm

Sweet. I got that tie-bar bridge down A-OK. That thing was starting to scare me. No big deal. I actually think it’s a more secure system for attaching to the bridge than a stopper-knot. Thanks for the helpful vid!
joe on September 6th, 2008 8:30 pm

hey, just wondering which kinda of string brand do you use, and which one you would recomend. btw. it was a helpful vid. made it easier to string my uke
MJ on December 13th, 2008 4:10 pm

Mahalo nui loa, very helpful
dangold on January 8th, 2009 5:19 am

Thanks bro. That really helped a first time uker out with changing strings.
Steve on March 6th, 2009 8:51 pm

Does anybody make a ‘ball end’ string? It would make it so much easier. This ‘tying a knot’ nonsense is out-dated technology, a ball end wouldn’t affect the sound at all, just would make life easier.
Andy on May 8th, 2009 11:00 am

I just got new strings for my baritone ukulele, which has a tie bar bridge. On the nylon strings, I cant get the knot at the bridge to hold enough tension to tune it up, the knot continues to slip as I tune it up. Is there any tricks to getting a better knot that will hold up?
Thanks
kelsey welsey on June 14th, 2009 5:03 pm

thanks! [:
philippines♥ on October 24th, 2009 2:47 pm

what nos. of string do i need?
can i put the string of my guitar to my ukulele?answer plsplspls
melissa on January 1st, 2010 7:15 pm

I had the same problem until I tightened the screws on the pegs a little, it holds just fine now.
Anon on March 6th, 2010 6:42 pm

Steel strings or nylon?
I don't think steel strings would work on a ukuleles as they have no truss in the neck; without the truss in it, the neck will bend from the forces exerted from the string. :I
*shrugs* Who knows, maybe it might.
Anon on March 6th, 2010 6:42 pm

*on a ukulele

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