If you are comfortable playing tenor scale - by all means get the tenor! I have little hands and am therefore pretty much restricted to smaller scales, and while I love my Kamaka concert and soprano ukes, I *really* love the sound of the HF-3 tenor. It's louder, has more sustain, and I find the tenor has some really nice low tones (I describe them as dark, not sure if that's the same thing that most people call warm or mellow?) that I just don't hear in smaller scale ukes. The tenor also has a 14-fret join instead of the standard 12th, which is really nice if you play further up the neck.