Aquila New Nylgut AQ-4 Soprano Ukulele Strings - High G – 1 Set of 4

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.

I got a set of these from Amazon and put them on a no name soprano uke I had bought years ago for $15. These strings improved the sound to the point where the uke now sounds as good as a $30 model. Actually the sound improvement was modest but most welcome. After putting on the Aquila's the uke did not become a good instrument but at least no longer sounded like a toy. I also have 2 other ukes with Aquila strings. One is a Kohala Kine'O tenor uke. This is a low end instrument that did not sound much better than the no-name soprano at first. It came with black flabby strings (no tension) that sounded plasticy and lacked resonance. I replaced them with a set of Aquila tenor strings with the low octave G string and the improvement was drastic. The uke now sounds good (not great) and has decent resonance. Also this particular uke has great intonation. Before the Aquila strings this instrument was a disappointment. With the Aquila strings it has become a keeper considering the cost. I got the it from Guitar Center with a coupon for $49, and the strings for $5 from an ebay seller. Also have a Luna Tattoo concert uke (with preamp) that is the best sounding of my ukes, although its intonation is not as good as that of the Kohala tenor. The Luna ukes come with Aquila strings pre-installed on them. This is a sweet and warm sounding ukulele that has a wonderful rich resonance. I doubt that I will ever use anything but Aquila's on this one.

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.

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.

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 purchased an inexpensive ukulele here on Amazon and it sounded just okay. I was watching video tutorials learning how to strum and someone mentioned these strings. I was pleased they were so affordable and bought them right away. I was nervous about stringing the ukulele, but watching a few videos on that proved it was fairly simple. I got them tuned and started playing a few chords. I could not believe the difference in sound -- someone else described it as bright and I think that fits -- and how much better the strings feel when you're holding them down to play a chord. My old strings were some kind of terrible plastic, and these feel SO much better. I am so thankful to have found these and look forward to practicing more! Someone else also already mentioned this, but they are white. Bright white. It's not an issue; I was just surprised by that.

Hey, that's a two-grade improvement! Seriously, the cheaper and nastier your ukulele, the bigger the improvement these strings may make. They can't correct intonation issues (can they?), although I swear I think they've helped. And, like any strings, they take time to stretch out fully so after the change them you'll be doing a lot of tuning and re-tuning. Unexpected: while the G and A (top and bottom) strings drifted flat as they stretched, the C and E strings drifted sharp, as if they were contracting. Weird, but what do I know - these were the first ukulele strings I've ever changed. Although I totally appreciated the environmentally sensitive packaging, as a total noob, separate envelopes for each string (like many YouTube videos show) would have helped me stay better organized right out of the gate. Still, a little more me taking my time and focusing on matching colors to notes to string positions vs. four extra paper sleeves, no contest there. I was going to treat myself to a better ukulele (a budget laminated ukulele, vs a cheapo) because I'm having so much fun with the ukulele, but the improvement in sound and playability was enough that now I'm not so sure.

Realistically, there is no best ukulele string for everyone. I love these strings on my laminate mid-range ukulele. The girlfriend thinks they are too harsh for her solid-acacia ukulele and she replaced her strings with flouro-carbons. If you read the ukulele nerd forums, you will see long discussions about ukulele strings and different people disagreeing about which strings are best even for the same brand and model of instrument. Bottom line is the best strings for you are a personal decision, based largely on what sound you like and what kind of music you play and what is your skill level. Strings are cheap enough and easy enough to install that, as soon as you develop a good enough ear to tell the difference, you may as well try a few on your ukulele and figure it out for yourself. As with all ukulele strings, they do take a while to settle in. I had to tune them after every 15 minutes of playing for the first couple of days. Every 30 minutes for the next few days. Once an hour for the next week. After a month, I only have to tune them a couple of times a week (or when the room is much cooler or warmer). Note that Aquila "New Nylgut" strings can come in either a brown package or a yellow package. Apparently, they are the same thing, but the brown ones are last year's version. There is a different darker brown package labeled Aquila "Super Nylgut" that is a slightly different formulation for a somewhat higher price. Most reviewers say the price difference is not worth it.

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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