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Originally Posted by ljguitar
...The soprano and alto Ukulele are tuned at the same intervals, but different notes, as a guitar (GCEA), with the G string an octave higher than on a guitar.
The tenor and baritone ukes are tuned just like the top four strings of a guitar (DGBE) and on the baritone uke in particular, you don't raise the D string an octave...
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Soprano and concert (alto) ukes are indeed tuned gCEA,
as are tenor ukes in standard tuning; while they
can be tuned to baritone DGBE with an appropriate set of strings, the drop-G or low-G tuning - where the fourth string is tuned like the third string of the guitar - is far more common. Just to muddy the waters further there are also alternative baritone string sets that allow for re-entrant (high-D) tuning, as well as "Irish uke" GDAE like an octave mando or Irish tenor banjo...
BTW our own Earl Mullins (Earl49) runs an excellent website for uke players (
www.boiseukulelegroup.com) -
highly recommended for beginning/intermediate players looking to get off to a good start...