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Any advice on best tenor ukuleles for low G tuning? I'm assuming that some have bigger bodies, and can better handle the resonance of a low G than others, and I'm wondering if anyone's had any experience to that effect?
Also interested to hear what people think makes an instrument deeper/more suited to lower tuning. For example, which woods might be better for lower-tuned tenors? And does the pineapple shape make a tenor more or less suited to deeper tuning?
Wish I could test this out more easily on my own, but ukes in stores are almost never tuned that way. I've tried tuning the C string down, and that gives somewhat of an idea, but often the floppiness of that tuned-down C makes it a poor gauge. Since most some stocked with Aquila strings with an unwound G... with higher gauge strings, I think that test would work better.
Also interested to hear what people think makes an instrument deeper/more suited to lower tuning. For example, which woods might be better for lower-tuned tenors? And does the pineapple shape make a tenor more or less suited to deeper tuning?
Wish I could test this out more easily on my own, but ukes in stores are almost never tuned that way. I've tried tuning the C string down, and that gives somewhat of an idea, but often the floppiness of that tuned-down C makes it a poor gauge. Since most some stocked with Aquila strings with an unwound G... with higher gauge strings, I think that test would work better.
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