If you look at other instrument families, many have much weirder members. No-one ever says 'Those tenor guitars and baritone guitars shouldn't really be called guitars.' It's a baritone ukulele, it follows the design hallmarks of the smaller ukes pretty well. the lower tuning is because, well you've got a bigger body, and a longer scale length, you might as well use it. The banjo ukulele sounds more different that a baritone ever will.
perfect point as a guitarist gone uker than baritone guitarist than agai
a full time converter to soprano and concert and now
I have found the perfect instrument for me baritone
ukulele the perfect middle ground in tone and size and style.
anyway I agree a banjolele sounds more like a "soprano
banjo" than it goes a ukulele. the woody tone is what you think
of when you think ukulele and banjo uke lacks all of in my opinion
the past tonal aspects of a true acoustic ukulele while baritone
still has a mellow island sound just a deeper voice of it.
it could be argued tenor guitar tuned like a tenor banjo
should be called something else being it has 4 strings and uses a banjo
tuning. as someone who played baritone electric guitar for a long time
I can say the standard voice ( b standard tuning) is much deeper but still
very much a guitar because it's played the same same technique
and if you capo you have a standard guitar
just as a capo on the faith fret of a baritone ukulele hmmm?
I think bass ukulele and tenor guitar are more in common
two instruments called something that don't share any of the
aspects of the instrument that really make up it's look and sound.
baritone guitar is to standard guitar as baritone ukulele is to soprano.
it's very much part of the family. it's odd no one says this about other siZe guitars makes you wonder...