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Slotted bridge, Tie bridge, Pin bridge
(Ed. Great information on tying and stringing all types of ukuleles. Rigk is the manufacture and builder it RISA ukuleles.
Bridge pins are used on some musical instruments to locate the string precisely in the horizontal plane, and in the case of harpsichords to affect the sustain of the strings.
Slotted Bridge Pins have a groove or slot cut in them which providing room for a string to pass between the pin and bridge.
Solid Bridge Pins require a notch in the bridge to for the string.
Bridge Pin Material affect the tone of the instruments and can be any material and typically wood, bone, plastic, fossilized ivory or metal.
What role do bridge pins play in sound? Aren't they just to keep the strings from flying off?
Site discusses slotted vs. no slots. Bridge pin material and how it affects an instruments tone.
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A Guide to Ukulele Chords is designed as a guide to ukulele (pronounced “oo-koo-lele”) chords. Covering the basic ukulele chords that ALL ukulele players SHOULD know. A Guide to Ukulele Chords covers movable chord forms, rock chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and includes an introduction to 4-part, a.k.a “jazz” chords and more...
From a few “core, basic chord shapes and a understanding of how chords are constructed. Your chord vocabulary can be dramatically increased without memorizing countless chord shapes. There are too many chord shapes to memorize.
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