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In an interview with Ukulelezaza that was shared here a week or so ago, he discussed how he likes keeping his one concert tuned down to reentrant Bb and his tenor tuned reentrant G. I know tuning down a tenor to renetrant Bb, A, or G is a not uncommon practice, but I haven't heard of many folks tuning down their concerts. Obviously, because of the shorter scale and the smaller body size the practical limit of tuning down a concert is likely higher than that for a tenor.
Still this got me thinking about if there are folks out there who tune down their concerts. Google revealed very few examples though I did note that Ian Kirby (Wunderkammer) states on his page for his concert that "I particularly like it tuned down to fBbDG" and I also ran across this video of Bb tuned concert that I think sounds pretty nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6G3Akh9cc
The last tenor I owned I tuned down to for a while A and liked it quite a bit there. I'm not a huge fan of tenors these days, mainly preferring to play sopranos when I play uke, but sometimes I miss having a uke I can tune down, and think about getting a concert (or maybe tenor) again someday for that purpose.
I think some some sopranos can sound okay at Bb, but C and D is really where they sit best. Concerts sit very well at C and from what little info I can find sit at Bb well too. What about A on a concert or even G?
So what say you? Who here tunes down there concerts (or sopranos even)? In your experience what is the practical limit for a concert.
Still this got me thinking about if there are folks out there who tune down their concerts. Google revealed very few examples though I did note that Ian Kirby (Wunderkammer) states on his page for his concert that "I particularly like it tuned down to fBbDG" and I also ran across this video of Bb tuned concert that I think sounds pretty nice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk6G3Akh9cc
The last tenor I owned I tuned down to for a while A and liked it quite a bit there. I'm not a huge fan of tenors these days, mainly preferring to play sopranos when I play uke, but sometimes I miss having a uke I can tune down, and think about getting a concert (or maybe tenor) again someday for that purpose.
I think some some sopranos can sound okay at Bb, but C and D is really where they sit best. Concerts sit very well at C and from what little info I can find sit at Bb well too. What about A on a concert or even G?
So what say you? Who here tunes down there concerts (or sopranos even)? In your experience what is the practical limit for a concert.