OldePhart
Well-known member
...I've become a tenor ukulele player in spite of myself.
It's hard to believe that a few months ago I was on the verge of selling my tenors. And I still prefer the voice of the soprano more than any other - in fact my favorite ukulele remains my mahogany soprano.
But...in trying to settle on one uke to take to UWC I figured I'd take my Kiwaya longneck soprano "beater" uke, since that's what I bought it for. I even put a pickup in it. After several days I just couldn't take it anymore - the fretboard is just too stinking narrow for doing cool stuff. My sopranos and longnecks are great for strumming, but I can pick twice as fast and "stick" far more complex chords without extraneous noises when I'm playing the tenors.
I guess I'm learning the hard way why most of the "big boys" play tenors.
Now that I've faced my shortcomings I just wish Uncle Sam had left me enough scratch to pick up one of those good deals on tenors in the marketplace right now...
John
It's hard to believe that a few months ago I was on the verge of selling my tenors. And I still prefer the voice of the soprano more than any other - in fact my favorite ukulele remains my mahogany soprano.
But...in trying to settle on one uke to take to UWC I figured I'd take my Kiwaya longneck soprano "beater" uke, since that's what I bought it for. I even put a pickup in it. After several days I just couldn't take it anymore - the fretboard is just too stinking narrow for doing cool stuff. My sopranos and longnecks are great for strumming, but I can pick twice as fast and "stick" far more complex chords without extraneous noises when I'm playing the tenors.
I guess I'm learning the hard way why most of the "big boys" play tenors.
Now that I've faced my shortcomings I just wish Uncle Sam had left me enough scratch to pick up one of those good deals on tenors in the marketplace right now...
John