Sometimes a song if your voice is a bit range limited like mine, does not seem suited to a key of a song, playing with ukulele. If uke makes me feel like its too low, I can take my classical guitar made baritone with stripping the bass E and A strings and sing a tune with using same chord fingerings a fifth higher and it feels better suited for me.
And sometimes if I feel the original tune with ukulele goes too high for my voice as natural, I can also grab my ”baritone” and sing it a fourth lower using the original ukulele chord fingerings. That's the duality of those tunings.
I don’t treat that instrument as a guitar anymore. I don’t much relate to the true key chords in it, because guitar chords are for the 6 strings, many barres etc. They don’t have so much in common with baritone chord fingerings. And this 4 string instrument is just a baritone, basically.
Of course I know the guitar fingerboard notes and chords in it with over 40 years of experience. It is not that, just a baritone is not a guitar. So I treat my ”baritone” as a transposing uke. Maybe one day I get a real one too. Money is a bit tight as always, so I am not in danger of any UAS lol.
And sometimes if I feel the original tune with ukulele goes too high for my voice as natural, I can also grab my ”baritone” and sing it a fourth lower using the original ukulele chord fingerings. That's the duality of those tunings.
I don’t treat that instrument as a guitar anymore. I don’t much relate to the true key chords in it, because guitar chords are for the 6 strings, many barres etc. They don’t have so much in common with baritone chord fingerings. And this 4 string instrument is just a baritone, basically.
Of course I know the guitar fingerboard notes and chords in it with over 40 years of experience. It is not that, just a baritone is not a guitar. So I treat my ”baritone” as a transposing uke. Maybe one day I get a real one too. Money is a bit tight as always, so I am not in danger of any UAS lol.