(For a thorough guide to standard and alternate guitalele tunings, check out my post about it.) I said in the introduction that the guitalele has a standard tuning like a guitar except pitched up a fourth as if you were to capo the guitar on the fifth fret: ADGCEA. Though the guitalele and six-string ukulele standard tuning might not seem to have much in common, they are actually closely related. TuningĪs I mentioned above, guitaleles and six-string ukuleles have different tunings, but the same number of strings. You can see this in the table below where I’ve indicated the dimensions of two highly-rated baritones and guitaleles on Amazon.Īs you can tell, these instruments have almost the same dimensions. That said, the size of nearly every guitalele and six-string ukulele tends to fall within a narrow range. However, there isn’t a standard size for either instrument. The six-string uke and the guitalele are usually about the same size. I’ll discuss more of these instruments’ similarities and differences in the sections below. The six-string ukulele’s strings will NOT be equally spaced, and the guitalele’s strings will be. What’s confusing about the terminology surrounding these instruments is that many use the terms guitalele and six-string ukulele interchangeably when they aren’t the same instrument! So the tuning of a six-string ukulele is GCcEAa. The six-string ukulele has the same tuning as the standard ukulele except its C and A strings have octave pairs with the paired strings closer together than the rest of the strings. So what’s the difference between a guitalele and a 6 string ukulele?Ī guitalele has six equally spaced strings tuned in the same intervals as a guitar but pitched up a fourth as if you were to capo the guitar on the fifth fret: ADGCEA.
But in this post, I’ll be focusing on the six-string ukulele.) Or if you want to know how the guitalele compares to the soprano, concert, and tenor ukuleles, check out this post. (If you’re curious about how the guitalele compares to a baritone ukulele check out this post.
In short, I know about these instruments, and I hope this post helps you think through their differences and which instrument is right for you. I started playing the guitalele too in 2019. I’ve played the ukulele since 2011 and the guitar since 2003. If you’re wondering what the difference is between a guitalele vs 6 string ukulele, this post is for you!
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