We've given a number of ukulele's as gifts this year...most of them inexpensive painted
Mahalo's. The
Mahalo ukuleles come with pretty lousy strings (something we realized too late before gift-giving came). Even after you've tuned them numerous times and they start to stay in tune, they still sound pretty bad. We tried putting on a number of strings (we ended up getting green and purple
Mahalo ukuleles for ourselves...it's a
uke thing). We found that we really like the way the
Worth Brown Fluoro-carbon medium (BM) strings sound on the
Mahalo ukuleles. The strings are somewhat pricey, but they give you enough length to do two
ukuleles with one package.
So for what it is worth, we recommend the Worth Brown
Fluoro-carbon medium (BM) soprano strings for the
cheapie-er-moderately priced
Mahalo ukuleles. You can
purchase them at
Elderly Instruments (a cool shop with a decent
ukulele selection).
Yes, these are basically fishing lines.
