Ukulele Eddie
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I think you need a "More than One" option in your poll. Having said that, if I was forced to pick one size and could only play that, it would probably be a 16" concert so I voted longneck/super concert.
Your favorite Ukulele size -- Autumn 2016 edition
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Iulia
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I've only ever played concert and soprano, and out of the two I prefer the soprano - both cos its little and cute, and I just love the bright punchy sound.
I have tiny hands and always struggled with guitar, but sooner or later I'm going to try a tenor
Thinking I might get one from hora as I heard their tenors were on the small size, and I visit Romania regularly ...
I have tiny hands and always struggled with guitar, but sooner or later I'm going to try a tenor
Thinking I might get one from hora as I heard their tenors were on the small size, and I visit Romania regularly ...
But then people end up with three or more favorites.
People like me! I constantly go back and forth between soprano and tenor, depending on the week you ask me. I overall prefer the sound of a (good) soprano, which right now to me means something like a Kiwaya/Famous FS-5 (probably the sold wood ones too, but I haven't played one) or one of those dried out, super light 1920-30s hog sops. (I really do want to try out the concert size of the FS-5, but it's not all that cheap.) The idea was just to see which one size current posters prefer. 
aldwyn
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Tough call for me because I like the tone from a concert, as its closer to the classic uke tone, but the playability of the tenor... But I am going to let tone trump playability here, and I voted for concert sized.
stevejfc
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Concert all the way
Camsuke
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I don't really have a favourite, I love them all.
Inksplosive AL
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So-pran-o all the way my concerts and my tenor sit unused while many of my sopranos are in rotation.
I have three Risa sticks a soprano a concert and a tenor and the body size is the same for all three. The actual difference in fret spacing is so minute its laughable. Well come to think I am playing my Risa tenor a bit but mostly due to the higher tension strings handling the down tuning to E A D G better.
~peace~
I have three Risa sticks a soprano a concert and a tenor and the body size is the same for all three. The actual difference in fret spacing is so minute its laughable. Well come to think I am playing my Risa tenor a bit but mostly due to the higher tension strings handling the down tuning to E A D G better.
~peace~
22x8, or as I call it, the John King troll chord
Sopranos all the way. Concerts are good too. Tenors are too big for what I like to play. Still yet to try a bari.
Rllink
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Concert for me, but that is what I have. Sometimes I think that I would like to get a soprano, but I don't need another ukulele laying around, so I don't ever buy one. I look at them a lot. I have never had the urge to go bigger though. If I went bigger I would just get a guitar, but I won't do that either probably. I have my hands full just learning to play the ukulele.
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I agree with Jon, in as much as it depends on what feels right for the song. Perhaps it's because I'm still a beginner and finding out about the various sizes, but I honestly haven't got a preference; although I started off with a soprano, as I suppose most people do, and the sound that that produces must be the most "authentic" ukulele sound.
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COncert, no question. If I'd figured that out sooner and stopped searching for some kind of holy grail (i.e. different sizes, + wood combos, etc) I wouldn't have gone through so many ukes. In 13 years & 30 ukes, more than half of them have been concerts. I had a long neck soprano, but the body was too awkward/small for me, so I figured out I like concert scale and body size combined.
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