Joyful Uke
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Again - thanks for all the help. I'm going to go and play some tenors nearby just to gauge the feel (even if they are cheaper models). One of the things I love about the concerts and sopranos I own is the ability to form exotic chords that may utilize the width of 7 or 8 frets. That's fun! I want to make sure jumping up a size doesn't hamper that ability. I'll just have to play a few and see. If there's little difference I may then look at longer scales. Long term - the Kinnards look amazing, but I'd like to stay married. If my next bonus is good enough .. who knows. The Mike Periara ukes look like a legitimate option. And I'd love to try a Blackbird. Also how about Pono as an option? They make a cutaway spruce top for $800 or so which looks great. I did some searching here and they seem to get mostly positive feedback. FYI -I'd say playability is more important than tone or sustain, but my experience with guitars is usually when they play easy and fret easy, they tend to sustain a tad better by design. But I really want to be able to hop around as effortlessly as possible. And I realize it won't play like a steel string guitar - even my nylon classical acoustics don't - but I'd like to give it hell trying! And practice will help that - even the ukes I own get easier with practice. So I'll get there. Thanks again!
Tim
I think that everything that has been suggested to you comes in concert size as well, so if you decide that you like that scale better, most of what everyone has said still applies.
The current base price for a Kinnard Series 1 is $1750, so still out of your range, but if you put a WTB (want to buy) in the Marketplace, you never know what might come up for a used one, with the added bonus of not losing your spouse.
Same for any other ukulele that might be of interest to you, in any size. We've got people on the forum with some interesting collections, and they might be willing to part with a ukulele if they knew they had a buyer.
If you don't mind taking a bit of a chance buying used, that might help get the price down to your range, even if new they'd be out of your range. I've only bought used from the marketplace here, but haven't had any problems from doing so, though that doesn't guarantee that you'll have the same luck.
You're coming from a background that might make it easier to figure out what you want, and then it's a matter of finding one.
This is my only instrument, so I had major UAS for a bit, while I tried to figure out what was "it" for me. Once I found that, though, my UAS was cured.
Enjoy the hunt for your next ukulele, whatever it might be.