Aren't there 19 frets on a tenor?

Compass Rose by Rick Turner uses 17 frets.

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I'm holding a Pono/tenor/mango with 19 frets. I did a little noodling on the high frets and they're all playable. But (and there's always a BUT...) the frets above 15 are so close togethwr that they're difficult to play at any speed, and they sound really, really plinky up there. So for my own hands, anything more than 15 frets is probably more decoration than playability.
 
It all depends on the uke. as deach said some super concerts(concert with a tenor neck) have more than 18 frets, but generally tenor ukuleles have 16-21 frets.
 
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