Guitalele

A Gitalele (also Guitarlele, Guitalele Gitarrlele or written ) is a mixture of a guitar and a ukulele.

One hand, it is almost as small and handy as a ukulele. On the other hand, it has six strings like a guitar, not four like the ukulele. With a scale length of nearly 45 cm and a total length of 73 cm, it is slightly larger than a Tenorukulele. Guitarists can use their usual attacks on the Gitalele ( on the ukulele " missing " on the other hand, the lowest two strings).

For the Gitalele game are due to the small size of the instrument pinky clearly beneficial. However Gitalelen are no so-called children's guitars. These have the same mood like a guitar and are slightly larger than the Gitalele.

Mood

Since the scale length of the scale Gitalele a gripped in the 7th fret 4/4-Konzertgitarre corresponds to the Gitalele is essentially a bottom guitar and is therefore a fifth higher than a guitar tuned accordingly, ie H, not on E - hence the higher, " hawaiian " sounding tone:

• Gitalele ( as Quint- guitar ): H E A D F # H
• Guitar: E A D G H e
• Ukulele: G C E A or A D F # H

It is also customary that Gitalele only a fourth to vote higher. Thus it is given a slightly darker tone and is slightly easier to grip because of the lower string tension:

• Gitalele (like quart guitar): A D G C E A

The guitar chord G major produces a D major chord on the Gitalele at the bottom guitar mood. In the Quart Guitar mood this would be a C major chord. Comparable is the basic mood of the Gitalele with the sound of an acoustic guitar with a capo at the 7th fret ( fifth) or 5th fret ( fourth). When using heavy strings a Gitalele can also be brought to the normal guitar tuning. Then the task is to transpose the chords as shown playing together with guitars omitted. However, the bass response is due to the small volume corpus severely limited.

• Guitar style