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Originally Posted by Rudy4
Not tenor, but I re-strung a baritone uke to convert it to a low-tuned nylon-strung mandolin.
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I had a friend (now passed away) who ran a small music shop from his home. He used to buy inexpensive (sub-$100) soprano ukes and changed out the strings for mandolin tuning. He sold a bunch of them to mandolin players as inexpensive travel / practice mandolins. Soprano was his choice because it was the same scale length as a mandolin.
Unfortunately, I never got the gauges of the alternate strings from him before he died, but I know he bought several grades of fluorocarbon fishing line to make his own sets in bulk.
David, I play slack key guitar a lot and have experimented with GCEG tuning on my ukulele to emulate taro patch (open G tuning). That sounds good, but I miss the alternating bass notes on the fifth and sixth strings.