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Old 05-09-2019, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Swamp Yankee View Post
Not in my opinion, no. Ukes, especially soprano ukes, are not particularly sturdy. The bridges on them are often pretty small (in footprint) and a bit on the tall side so there's a lot of tension on a bridge with only a small glued surface area keeping it stuck to the top. As I suggested in my post, I think the bridges on many would pop off before the strings broke.

While it might be possible to tune a soprano to F, I certainly wouldn't advise doing it for any length of time. Besides... many of them begin to sound very tinny even at D.... cranking them up to F would probably not help the tone at all.
The strings would still be lose at F tuning. Standard set runs from 5 to 10 pounds of tension.
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