▲ 118 r/roughcollies
Waiting patiently for games
Staring at the gate, patiently waiting for one of his friends to arrive for some games. We have the hoop as a back-up in case we are out of luck today!
u/RichardBJ1 — 4 days ago
u/RichardBJ1
▲ 2 r/ukulele
OK so I find that for me, the high G sounds “dead” to me on both my tenor and concert ukulele. I wondered if it was just me or actual acoustics. So I did some experiments. Here are the plots for them (Uma -> concert, Kala -> tenor). These are the sustain envelopes. I had hoped that if it was just the string itself, then perhaps changing the nature/make/type of string would change the effect, but it seems it is actually the pitch? I only did this a couple of times so my plucking is not terribly consistent, but in terms of sustain it seems evident that around 392Hz (G4) I get less sustain than other pitches.
G is G-string. G_e is G played on the E-string. The Uma is re-entrant, Blue Moon strings the Kala is low-G, Revelator strings.
So my question really is; is this just an immutable feature of ukulele or can one increase this sustain in someway?
u/RichardBJ1 — 10 days ago
▲ 6 r/kayaksailing
Set out in pretty calm sunshine. Mid way… not rain but torrential rain/hail shower. Gosh the wind picks up too!! Still tremendous fun… but fingers and toes frozen! 🥶
u/RichardBJ1 — 1 month ago
▲ 47 r/kayaksailing
Got my bigger sail out today for the first time. The larger Falcon. Nice gentle trip. Overall somewhat slower than before I got any sails! ...but lots of relaxing fun nonethelesss!!
u/RichardBJ1 — 1 month ago
▲ 7 r/kayaksailing
Popped my smaller sail (KCS) on the Stellar Dragonfly today. The winds were allegedly 20+mph with gusts 35 or so. Around a little headland I couldn’t even paddle into it (with the sail down)…. Lighter winds forecast for to day, so will use my bigger sail (Falcon)
u/RichardBJ1 — 1 month ago
▲ 9 r/kayaksailing
So I am pimping my little Stellar Dragonfly with a Falcon sail. I’ve put a little foredeck in but some work to do yet. So excited to give this a go!!
u/RichardBJ1 — 2 months ago