Bill Sheehan
Well-known member
Sorry if this has been hashed out already, but...
I'm not confident that I grasp the "physics" of this question as well as I might. In a nutshell, it boils down to this: if a player tunes a traditional-scale soprano uke to standard gCEA tuning, but the string tension feels a little too "floppy" for his/her preference, and the player doesn't want to tune the uke any higher (as a means of increasing the string tension), would an equally legitimate solution be to simply utilize the same string set, still in the gCEA tuning, but on a "longneck" (concert-scale) soprano? Phrased differently, will a "longneck" soprano have a "tighter" feel than a "regular" soprano using the same kind of strings/tuning? Thanks!
I'm not confident that I grasp the "physics" of this question as well as I might. In a nutshell, it boils down to this: if a player tunes a traditional-scale soprano uke to standard gCEA tuning, but the string tension feels a little too "floppy" for his/her preference, and the player doesn't want to tune the uke any higher (as a means of increasing the string tension), would an equally legitimate solution be to simply utilize the same string set, still in the gCEA tuning, but on a "longneck" (concert-scale) soprano? Phrased differently, will a "longneck" soprano have a "tighter" feel than a "regular" soprano using the same kind of strings/tuning? Thanks!