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How to Tune the Ukelele
How to Tune the Ukelele, page 1
Wednesday 01 March 2006


Whether a ukulele is in tune in or out of tune can make the difference between sweet, soothing sonorities and piercing noise that makes your cat hiss. Ukuleles require frequent tuning, so it is important that you spend a little time getting good at this. If you have been strumming vigorously for several minutes, or if the temperature or humidity changes, or if it has been sitting around for a while, you will have to tune it again. Fortunately there are only four strings to contend with!

There are many methods of turning the ukulele. If you have a very inexpensive ukulele, structural imperfections may make it impossible to tune it perfectly at all. You can compensate for this however by making small adjustments to make it sound good for a particular key. For now, I'll show you a couple of quick ways to tune your and ukulele to make it sound good most situations.

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