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My kid over-wound the A string and popped it. This is on his $20 ukulele, and not long after I told him what would happen if he tuned it too high :( Anyway, after checking a local music store and drooling over their Cordoba instruments, we learned they wanted $40 in labor plus the cost of strings. I ❤️ brick & mortar stores but only the good ones! Anyway, to Amazon I turned, finding these for a really attractive price. Not being a more than a very novice ukulele player, I can't comment on the quality of these versus a another brand. I can say there's a huge jump in quality over what came installed on it, though. These stay in tune much longer, and genuinely make this cheap instrument sound noticeably better. That's a win to me.

If you've bought or been given a standard mid/beginner's level ukulele, it's probably strung with these, and if it isn't then it should be. When I bought my Kala KA-15S Soprano Ukulele, it came pre-strung with these and I love them! They have a nice sound and strumming them is easy as pie. I'm no expert but these strings have received many rave reviews online and among my friends who play ukulele. I actually bought this set to use as replacements for the ones on my 4 year old cousin's "play guitar" from toys-r-us. It has 4 strings, and the actual size of the instrument isn't that far off from a plastic ukulele, so I thought some nicer strings might add some quality to the instrument if he wanted to learn chords and play it for real. Overall, they're good solid strings that works for beginners and pros alike. If you don't have them, buy a set and you won't regret it! Note: Cousin loves the strings :3

These are great strings. I haven't had any other strings to compare them to except for the black strings that were on my Kala KA-S. These sound way better than those, they are louder, and they keep their tune pretty well. The only problem I have with them (which doesn't take any stars away) is that they take a long time to stretch. It took me a couple of hours of tuning them up a bit and then letting them stretch until I finally got them to the tune I want. On guitar strings, they stretch, but you can tune it all the way up in one go. With these, you have to tune them up and then wait a minute or two and keep doing that for a while until it reaches the correct tuning. Anyways, even though this is a bit of an annoyance, it doesn't affect the playing experience in the long run. They made my $50 uke sound a whole lot better.

Been having the super crappy First Act soprano ukulele for years now (don't look at me like that, bought a Makala concert in March, learned to play it and have since bought 8 more ukes, all costing MORE than $15 each, so there). Figured I'd put some decent strings on this painted red thing so my friends could have a uke to misuse while leaving my others alone. I woulda learned how to play ukulele long, long ago if I had known enough to put strings as good as these on it back then. This hunk a junk is now playable, didn't think that would happen. It has terrible wood, frets, tuners (one's hanging on by just one screw, like this for years), everything just sucks, but it now holds a tune for several hours and is louder and way less toy-like sounding. And incredibly, intonation is almost perfect, not sure if that's the strings though, maybe I fiddled with it and it accidentally helped. Kinda sounds like the Makala dolphins I've played but with less bass. They probably include these or very similar Aquila strings standard on alot of ukes now (like my Caramels). If you want the most badass strings on earth for an entry to intermediate ukulele get the Aquila supernylgut 103u's, they are fantastic. If your uke wouldn't really benefit from those kind of extreme dynamics, is really cheap or if you just want to save a couple bucks, these are very good, just don't expect the performance or super fast break in time of the 103u's.

My husband had purchased a cheap Ukulele for me at Half Price Book Store ($24.99 with beginner book) to play with. I am wanting to learn to play a musical instrument and having been working on and off trying to learn the acoustic guitar but the guitar is big and bulky feeling. I am a children's book author and have songs to go with all of my stories and I think the Ukulele may just be my perfect fit. I looked online about ukuleles and saw that someone said you could put real strings on a cheap ukulele and voila excellent, or almost, excellent instrument. I am not musically inclined (hoping to change that) and have never changed strings on an instrument before. I was able to follow a wiki website and a you tube video and was able to change the strings out and then tune it with a Snark electronic tuner. Amazing difference! I am so excited now because the ukulele seems to be the right "size" for me, and I also ordered a book with a DVD, Ukulele Primer For beginners Book & DVD and this is an amazing book and DVD combo for the beginner. I had to research online to see what kind of strings to buy and even the book/video I purchased had mentioned this brand of strings. I feel so thankful that in my lifelong journey it has brought me to the ukulele. I think I will really enjoying playing it and you never know how far one can go in life if you do not put yourself out there and try. So here I go, and wish me luck!

Everywhere I go, anytime I hear 'ukulele', I also hear 'Aquila strings.' I've tried several different uke strings for both my soprano and my concert ukes, and I've got to say, these are not my favorites. I think the sound these strings produce are overly bright, a little squeaky and they don't seem to allow for smooth transitions from chord to chord in my opinion. At least for the two ukes I have, these strings did nothing for their tone. I much prefer the Martin Clear Flurocarbon strings!

These strings (as promised, after a few weeks they have stretched and stay in tune and sound good) combined with my new Makala pineapple uke, Ukulele for Dummies book, Snark SN-2 tuner and some patience have made this a really fun addition to the other things I do. And all for less than $100 thanks to Amazon. I am moving forward s-l-o-w-l-y but surely and doing what the book says to do. I was going to get a uke case right away, but just leaving it lying on top of surfaces around my house and work makes me pick it up for just a few minutes at a time, strum a few chords, dabble with a little note finger picking, then put it down and do the other things I have to do. If I had it in a case I would not be using it as much as I do, and for me to use it a lot in short bursts is keeping it in tune and getting a little better every day. I can see this is something I will be doing and enjoying for a long time. I have gotten a lot of inspiration, knowledge and ideas by also watching some of the many YouTube uke teaching and performance videos. If you have not yet looked, go to YouTube and search for Jake Shimabukuro and James Hill videos. And to see incredibly beautiful ukes go to ukemaker.com

I'm a guitar player who wanted to play with the ukulele, so I bought a very inexpensive but great-value-for-the money uke. Unfortunately, I soon found myself thinking it might have been better to have saved up for a better instrument, because while I could put up with the so-so tone (what did I expect for thirty dollars), I wasn't comfortable with the intonation. Again, the instrument I got is great for the money, but intonation is very important to me. Before I considered trading up, though, I thought I should give these strings a try considering how very many people had been recommending them for my particular uke. I was a little dubious of the near-magical properties that some reviewers had described, but having tried the strings out, I'm a convert. These strings absolutely don't convert my instrument to a great one, but it no longer sounds like a toy (as it did to some extent with the stock strings), and even more impressively, the intonation is much better, so that it went from a vexing problem to no problem at all. These strings do take quite a while to stretch and settle in, so even a couple weeks after getting them, I'm still doing a lot of tuning, but if you're looking for a noticeably better sound from your uke, I think you'll find them well worth the trouble.

Good strings

Mi sono trovato molto bene da subito con queste nuove corde. Arrivano in una busta, perchè la confezione è veramente molto piccola, dove le corde sono distinte tra di loro dal colore dell'estremità (A-red, E-Blue, C-Green, G-white), si montano facilmente una volta rimosse le vecchie corde, dopo di che comincia il processo di accordatura. Questo è un po' noioso perchè le corde perdono tensione dopo pochissimo il primo giorno, perchè devono equilibrarsi per bene sullo strumento. Il mio consiglio è di fare una prima accordatura sommaria e poi lasciare tutta la notte lo strumento a riposare, in maniera tale che si possano formare gli equilibri elastici. A livello di suono, il mio strumento è un ukulele della Eko, un modello primo prezzo, con delle corde veramente scarse, troppo leggere e dal suono proprio brutto. Montare queste corde ha migliorato di gran lunga il suono dello strumento, che ora è più stabile e anche più alto di volume. Al tatto sono molto lisce, e per chi arriva dalle corde base della Eko, sono più pesanti e dure, il che permette di suonarle con più naturalezza, senza il timore di rimanere impigliati con un'unghia nel ritorno dello strum. In generale l'esperienza è ottima e mi sento di consigliarle caldamente.

Las cuerdas son de buena calidad, cumplió con el requerimiento de mi ukulele. Las recomiendo.

I put these on my cheap diamond head ukulele and it absolutely transformed the sound. The strings hold their tuning really well compared to other strings I've tried. I'm definitely going to repurchase in the future.

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