On Grover 6 ukulele tuners and Gotoh UPT tuners, and how I learned to like friction tuners
The following is a story of how I learned to like friction tuners. If you want to read an in-depth review of two types of tuners - the Grover 6's and the Gotoh UPT's - or if you like reading about ukuleles in general, then please read the whole thing. If you want to see some very basic recommendations, please skip to the last paragraph. *** My first uke and the friction tuner problem The first ukulele I owned was like many people's first: it was an actual toy. Because I didn't have a reference point yet for the many things that make some ukes better than others - things like the intonation, feel, playability, or even the weight - the first thing that I noticed about it was how hard it was to tune it. Every time I got it tuned to GCEA it seemed to slip out of tune. And tuning it up again was always time-consuming. The next uke I got was slightly more expensive, though not by much - it was an Oscar Schmidt , definitely a cheap uke rather than a toy uke. When I p