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Topher
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 Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 10:55 pm Post subject: UKE PICKUPS |
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I am researching what I'd need to make an electrified slide resonator uke. Sounds outlandish, and sure enough it would be just that.
Well, it would help to purchase a ukulele sized magnetic pickup. Anybody have any leads for such things?
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Leroy
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Neal
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Topher
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| Right, metal strings. I think I'd need metal strings for a slide resonator instrument anyway... but good point! |
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Neal
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| Topher wrote: | | Right, metal strings. I think I'd need metal strings for a slide resonator instrument anyway... but good point! |
And not bronze, nickel. Magnets won't pick up bronze..
There are some very successful nylon string guitar bottleneck on youtube. And if you're talking about a uke, well, National IS nylon, and a resonator.
In my experience I haven't found a uke to be a proper size for any meaningful slide work. I have yet to see a slide player on uke that actually sounded like it was meant to be that way... know what I mean? It's a small instrument, not a ton of range, only 4 strings.. it IS quite the novelty though, played with a bottleneck, but not a sound, to my ears, that can be taken seriously. And I take the uke seriously.
I have heard some of those 3 and 4 string cigar box resos on youtube, Seasick Steve plays one, and those are pretty dang cool. But the scale length is quite longer, and they do use metal strings. If you use an undersaddle or something like the K&K, you can use whatever strings suit your fancy.
So, my advice is to go with a long scale, metal strings, and a cigar box. 
You could also use this below, a Lace UltraSlim resonator pickup. I have a similar one on my National guitar. It is magnetic.
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Leroy
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| Neal wrote: |
I have heard some of those 3 and 4 string cigar box resos on youtube, Seasick Steve plays one, and those are pretty dang cool. But the scale length is quite longer, and they do use metal strings. If you use an undersaddle or something like the K&K, you can use whatever strings suit your fancy.
So, my advice is to go with a long scale, metal strings, and a cigar box.
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I agree with Neal.
I put these two Cigar Box instruments together in the past 2 weeks. The 3 string is a 25 inch scale guitar tuned G-D-G. The 4 string is a 21 inch scale (?) tuned D-G-B-D. Both have flat fret boards with slightly high action to accommodate fretting and slide work. With proper shielding the P-bass single coil pickups are dead silent and have great sound.
I'm having a ball playing Bo Diddley and John Lee Hooker type stuff on the 3 string.
More pictures.
http://www.leroybeal.net/guitars/cbg/cbg.html
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