The clunky-ness of the tuners is what I like. I do hate the way the steel strings have to loop over that nice bridge. I wonder if they scratch the bridge surface in time. It's be nice it it had bridge pins instead. I wonder how it's tuned?
Ernest
Except that an instrument designed for steel strings would have a thicker top and heavier bracing to accommodate the higher string tension....I can see no reason not to string that puppy up with some Worths and play it as a uke.
Sort of. It is a Cavaquinho, the Portugese ancestor of the ukulele.
If that saddle is movable, and it looks like it might be, I can see no reason not to string that puppy up with some Worths and play it as a uke.