I have the tenor. I tune it gCEA, though Gold Tone recommends dGBE. I love the way it sounds, and get many compliments, usually from surprised guitar players. This past weekend, Grammy award winning songwriter Julie Gold (she wrote "From a Distance") pronounced it "cute". I've played the baritone version, but like most baritone ukes, I found the tension too low for my tastes. The tenor tuned gCEA gives a very snappy banjo-like sound when fingerpicked. I normally play mine without the wooden back plate, because I have a pickup crudely installed on it, and with the pack plate, it feeds back like nobody's business. I used to have the soprano-sized Gold Tone Banjolele Deluxe with the full resonator (the old version, with friction tuners) and I didn't care for it as much. But then, I've always been a tenor guy. I'm not a Formby-style player. I generally use it to play folk/Americana-style music.
- FiL