Captain Simian
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In a weird way you guys aren't helping. lol I tend to play a bit percussively and don't play any single note type things unless I'm aimlessly playing while watching TV so the Makai not having a lot of sustain isn't necessarily an issue for me. But I do love the sound of cedar tops; my Seagull parlor has a cedar top which has just broken in nicely after 12 years of abuse. Hmmm...
In a weird way you guys aren't helping. lol I tend to play a bit percussively and don't play any single note type things unless I'm aimlessly playing while watching TV so the Makai not having a lot of sustain isn't necessarily an issue for me. But I do love the sound of cedar tops; my Seagull parlor has a cedar top which has just broken in nicely after 12 years of abuse. Hmmm...
Percussive/Strumming = Mahogany
I was listening to a Pono tenor wood comparison video from HMS recently (planning on ordering my "last" tenor once Andrew finds exactly what I'm looking for) and I think I finally may have nailed down the "difference" that keeps pushing me away from spruce and cedar ukes. While many spruce and cedar ukes I've heard sound lovely, and the one I owned was certainly loud with good sustain, I think maybe they have more sustain than the hardwood (i.e. varieties of acacia/koa/mango and mahogany/sapelle) ukes do and when strummed that causes them to lose some of the "lilt" that, for me, identifies the traditional ukulele sound.
John
I think this quote is really on to something!
Well, at least to my ears the "traditional ukulele sound" can't really be achieved with a tenor anyway, so you might as well capitalize on the sustain potential that a larger body offers.