Tenor Guitar vs Baritone Ukulele

kkimura said:

My story goes in the opposite direction. I started with a six string acoustic guitar but had trouble with the long scale and fretting (short fingers). Tried switching to a classical guitar but still had fretting and scale length issues. The ukulele scale lengths and strings work for me although I still like the range, sound and volume you can get with a six string guitar.

And so here I am thinking about baritones.

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John boy said:

Same here. I have played guitar since I was 12 and I'm now 65. A few years ago, it started becoming difficult for me to make the stretches, for several reasons. So I went to tenor guitar, and that made life much easier for pop, jazz and standards (I have an acoustic tenor and electric tenor guitars). But I wanted to continue to play classical music as well, as I used to on my classical guitar. So I found the baritone ukulele and I'm very glad I did. It takes getting used to four strings instead of six -- you have to rearrange the pieces to fit the instrument -- but my baritone uke with soft strings (Worth Brown strings, all non-wound) feels very nice for classical, and it sounds nice to me.

I have one baritone tuned DGBE, and another tuned lower, to ADF#B, which gives more of a guitar-like sound.

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kkimura said:

My story goes in the opposite direction. I started with a six string acoustic guitar but had trouble with the long scale and fretting (short fingers). Tried switching to a classical guitar but still had fretting and scale length issues. The ukulele scale lengths and strings work for me although I still like the range, sound and volume you can get with a six string guitar.

And so here I am thinking about baritones.

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kkimura said:

I've always liked Worth Browns.

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Bill1 said:

The soprano is the end point for aspiring masters.
Evolution to soprano:
Banjo
Tenor Guitar
Baritone uke
Guitar
Tenor Uke
Soprano uke.

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