• Grah1
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Topic: New Guitarlele day

Today  I  received  a  Yamaha GL1 Guitarlele  .For  thise  who  haven't  seen one  its  a uke  sized  nylon strung guitar
superb    bit  of kit 
Ive  posted  some  vid  of  some  one  demonstrating  one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s2xojICOHU

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Re: New Guitarlele day

cool little beast you can travel anywhere with that.

my papy said son your going too drive me too drinking if you dont stop driving that   Hot  Rod  Lincoln!! Cmdr cody and his lost planet airman
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Re: New Guitarlele day

ooohhhhhh i would like one of those smile

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Jan they are really cheap I got this from Amazon 52 pounds

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Happy New Guitarlele Day. I hope we soon hear something with you playing it.

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Hmmmm... is that basically a teeny tiny classical guitar?  My brother still has my classical, and I think I may never get it back.  He's not playing it.  Yet he's not returning it either.  It may have "disappeared", which is OK.  Maybe I need one of these!!!!  big_smile

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Grah1 wrote:

Jan they are really cheap I got this from Amazon 52 pounds

Grah1 ........ oooohh now that is tempting .....

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Funny thing though...... I'm not sure the F or B chords are any easier on a smaller guitar, but perhaps the Nylon strings help??

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Doug_Smith wrote:

Funny thing though...... I'm not sure the F or B chords are any easier on a smaller guitar, but perhaps the Nylon strings help??


Darn busted!   Your onto it  Doug  lol   I was kinda thinking it might help that F chord lol  big_smile

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Re: New Guitarlele day

Jandle wrote:
Doug_Smith wrote:

Funny thing though...... I'm not sure the F or B chords are any easier on a smaller guitar, but perhaps the Nylon strings help??


Darn busted!   Your onto it  Doug  lol   I was kinda thinking it might help that F chord lol  big_smile

It's confessional time (again), I started on a Classical Guitar..... playing that "long hair" music.  Nylon strings are softer and in many ways easier on the fingertips.  Not too big a change from your Uke so you should have calluses enough to skip the painful bleeding part.  Per your other post in chat, try the FMaj7 for awhile (regular F with the high E string "open" in Roger's C/G shape) then you can kinda let your index slump onto the 1st string after awhile and next thing you know you're on to that "Evil B"! wink

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