OldePhart
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If you've read many of my posts you've heard that I'm pretty much married to ukes with soprano sized bodies and concert scale necks - i.e. "longneck soprano." Well, in preparation for my upcoming trek to UWC I figured I'd spend some time exclusively playing my tenors, as it seems most people play tenors up there and I didn't want to be drowned out on my little soprano body ukes.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love my Mainland mango tenor with MiSi pickup - as far as I love any tenor. But, having just finished four days of playing nothing but tenors (and having played them a lot - to the point that I took a vacation day yesterday and played almost all day long)...and having progressed to where I am actually completely comfortable with the tenor scale length...I have to consider the effort an epic failure.
The instant I strummed one of my longneck sopranos after four solid days of playing tenors exclusively it was as if I'd come home. While I'm perfectly comfortable on a tenor scale, now, nothing can substitute for the sound of a soprano body.
So, I may be the only guy at UWC playing a soprano uke, but my only regeret will be that neither of my longneck sopranos has a pickup.
John
Now, don't get me wrong, I love my Mainland mango tenor with MiSi pickup - as far as I love any tenor. But, having just finished four days of playing nothing but tenors (and having played them a lot - to the point that I took a vacation day yesterday and played almost all day long)...and having progressed to where I am actually completely comfortable with the tenor scale length...I have to consider the effort an epic failure.
The instant I strummed one of my longneck sopranos after four solid days of playing tenors exclusively it was as if I'd come home. While I'm perfectly comfortable on a tenor scale, now, nothing can substitute for the sound of a soprano body.
So, I may be the only guy at UWC playing a soprano uke, but my only regeret will be that neither of my longneck sopranos has a pickup.
John