How to Restring a Ukulele

Video Transcript

"Now once you have the strings purchased, we'll assume that you first of all if you have nylon string, guitar strings that you've cut the string down to approximately the length of the entire instrument, so you have a string about this long or the Ukulele strings which will be approximately the same length. Now to restring the instrument, of course there would be no strings or maybe you'd be missing a string at the time, but first what you would do is you would feed the string through this hole on the back of the Ukulele here. Now it would go through here, up the bridge, then you would feed it through the hole in the tuning peg. You would want the hole to be going this way. So when you bring the string up, you take a right angle, bring it in, hold the string here, and then tune the tuning peg up to increase tension. Now you also have to tie the string down at the bottom. So once the string is through, bring the end of the string, the tail, back under the string that was fed through and then under itself two times or so, so that you can create the tension. Pull it taut and then you'll have enough tension down here to hold the string in place while you tune it up. Then you might just clip the little bit of extra string you've got at the bottom and the extra string you've got at the top."