I use this tuning on tenors sometimes. Both with low F and high F. It really just leads to playing the stuff you already play 1 step down. Depending on your vocal range it may or may not make certain songs easier to sing. I personally think reentrant tenors sound better tuned to this way compared to standard C6 tuning. Again though it’s really just a tonal difference from the lower tension and lower pitch and potentially a difference in how easily you can sing along to what your playing (just the reverse of a capo). That really it.
First off, when you write f Bb D G, you are telling us that you are using high f tuning. F Bb D G is low F tuning. Secondly, why do you think that a step up leads to Tin Pan Alley? You can tune the uke however you want and play any song, in any key that you want to play as long as you develop the ability to play chord shapes in more than one place on the neck.
I suppose I should have clarified I was looking for other uke players to share titles of songs that they thought sounded better than the original key when played with this tuning. It's not the same as just transposing; it's halfway to an entirely different intstrument.
English tuning is the norm for that genre. 100 years ago, D-tuning was predominant, so to me at least, songs played with aDF#B don't necessarily have to sound that way, but it does take the ear that direction. I have a friend who used English or Canadian tuning for an entire album. It gives the whole compilation more of a yesteryear flavor.
