Can you expand on why you have both sizes and the benefits you see with each? I’m still a beginner but thought I would get the tenor to have the option of low G stringing. I find that I have more trouble with challenging chords on a tenor but wonder if i can build more flexibility with practice.
First let me say that I too am really just a neophyte, so take anything I say with a grain of salt. I've only been serious about learning to play uke for a little over a year. Orginally I wanted a tenor Moon Bird because I was enamored of the sound after seeing Baz's review. When I heard HMS had gotten in some MoonBirds. all the tenors were gone by the tme I scrounged enough $ to buy one, and I "settled" for a concert....which I fell in love with, and totally adore. I went on to buy a tenor a few months ago to see how it compared, since it was what I orginally had wanted. If I could only have one uke, it would be the concert. However, I do love the tenor, and it has a slightly richer sound to my ear, wher eI find the concert a little more bell like in tone. I favor the concert slightly mostly due to ergonomics (I have some issues with the nerves in my arms & hands due to a hanglider crash 10 years ago). I go back and forth between the two a lot. I also wouldn't rule out the concert for low g. I just coordinated a family purchase to get my niece a moon bird concert from HMS (it arrived today in fact), and we had it strung for her low-g with a fremont soloist low g. It sounds so amazing that I am sorely tempted to swich my own concert over to low g.We had great fun playing some duets tonight until my hands were cramping! The lowg is very balanced with the other strings, and unike other ukes I've strung low g, with her moonbird the low g did not overwhelm the other strings. As far as the tenor size, I have found that with daily stretching exercise I am finally finding the thinner necks on some tenors more manageable, which is why I am hanging onto my Moon Bird tenor...and honestly I just get a real kick out of hearing the subtle differences in sound between the different sizes, tonewoods, strings, and tunings of different ukuleles. In fact, I recently picked up a Moon Bird soprano after selling a few other ukes, and I love it is well. It has the same moon bird sound, just a little higher in pitch and a little softer in volume. I'm currently in the process of thinning down my uke collection, and will probably end up just keeping the Anuenue's and K brands. I can only play so many ukes in one day!!!!
Sorry to derail your sale/trade thread a bit! Either way you go, tenor, or concert, they are wonderful ukes with a really unique sound.
