What makes up a ukulele?

The ukulele is essentially a smaller version of the guitar. It has a body, a neck, frets, a head with tuning pegs and a sound hole. These are pretty much basic things about every guitar. The difference can come with the number of strings that are used by the ukulele. Most ukuleles only have four strings. Depending on something we will talk about later in this question is how those strings are tuned. There are also some variations in which the ukulele may have six strings, in which the first and the third strings are doubled, and some ukuleles may have eight strings, which causes every string on the instrument to be paired and doubled.

There are three different sizes to the ukuleles. The smallest size of ukulele is called the soprano ukulele. It is given this name because of the size of the instrument. The smaller the ukulele the higher the pitch of music that will come out of it. The next ukulele is the concert or the tenor ukulele. This is the most common instrument in the ukulele family and was introduced in the 1920’s. The third ukulele is the baritone ukulele, which has the deepest sound out of the three. These three different types of ukuleles will tune their strings differently because of the different styles of music that are more commonly played on them. There is also a different variation of the ukulele called the Tahitian ukulele. The Tahitian is simple a ukulele without the sound box or body of the ukulele. The head and the neck are carved out of one piece of wood and has a hole carved into the middle.