Though I’m really not sure whether I’ll get any benefit from it I’ve been pondering having a low G Uke for some time. A lot of people seem to have a low G Uke so there must be some sense to it, yes? By lucky chance I happened on this thread and it’s been helpful in answering a few questions for me and making me aware of an issue.
I was going to go down the wound low G route - and likely still will - but wasn’t aware of them being on the fragile side and not really suitable for swopping in and out. Fitting a solid low G string will require the nut slot to be widened and intonation seems almost certain to be thrown out too. There seem to be no easy answers, well none that don’t also have draw-backs too.
Though I’m mostly using a Concert at the moment I prefer to play Soprano. Opinions as to whether low G works on Sopranos seem be quite variable but one of those would be my altered Uke. The gCEA Concert’s working well at the moment and I’m loathed to risk upsetting things and particularly so to further an experiment - there shouldn’t be an issue and there should be a happy outcome but I’m not happy to take a chance.
So what’s the Soprano route that’s most likely to leave me with a happy outcome? Fit a wound low G that might have limited life and might dominate other strings but doesn’t need much in the way of set-up; or fit a solid fluorocarbon string that should last well but might not intonate well and will require a permanent change to the nut?
I’m thinking Fremont for a wound low G and both Fremont and Living Waters for solid fluorocarbon low G Soprano string sets.