Nickie
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I own a longneck KoAloha soprano strung with KoAloha soprano strings. I think they recommend concert strings, but I always observed stepping up that direction kind of kills the sound on these smaller bodies. They are built light and don’t need much to fully resonate the soundboard. It does buzz on a certain string certain chords tuned in standard C tuning with my vigorous playing style aka really digging in, but the trick is I tune up to D (ADF#B) and wala zero buzzing without so much floppy-ness in the strings. This is not a problem for me as a solo player, but you can always re-tune back to C at a uke group or playing with a band need be and it’s really hard to notice in that loud of a setting. The upgraded UPT tuners really make tuning back and forth a breeze. Hope this helps, little soprano/sub-sopranos were originally tuned higher back in the days anyways it’s just physics and sounds MUCH more ideal.
Dohle, I hope you get this resolved soon. There is a whole thread somewhere in UU about fixing buzzes, which aggravate me to no end.
If you switch to D tuning, don't you have to learn a whole new set of chord names?
Or, if you use Onsong, can you just switch each song to the next lower key?