Longneck Concert/Super Concert – A concert body with a tenor neck. Longneck Soprano/Super Soprano – A soprano body with a concert neck. This configuration allows for the ukulele to have the sound of the smaller body, but with the benefits of the longer scale. Some brave companies are manufacturing ukuleles that have mismatched body and neck sizes. It’s much more travel friendly than an electric bass (and especially an upright!) and has a fat, thumpy tone that makes it a fun alternative to its steel string counterpart (though they are making those kind of ukes too now). Bass UkuleleĪ bass ukulele is essentially an oversized baritone with HUGE strings on it that are tuned to the same pitch as a traditional bass guitar – EADG. Just an extra-small soprano with a scale to the tune of 13″+/. It’s popular for traveling around, but takes some nimble fingers to fret hard chords! Sopranino Ukulele With an 11″-ish scale, a pocket uke might very well fit in a big pocket. Some of these include oddly sized ukuleles that aren’t very traditional. With the advent of the ukulele becoming so popular, companies are pushing the envelope with new ideas and building styles. If you tell someone that you play the ukulele, odds are that they’ll picture you holding a soprano sized uke (after all, it’s the size Tiny Tim – and many other pop culture uke icons – used). Scale length: 13-14 in./Total length: 21 in. You can get a rough idea how each uke stacks up to the next in this size chart: Soprano Ukulele: The bigger the body chamber, the lower the sound. The smaller the body chamber, the higher the sound. This is due mainly to the resonating surface each ukulele has. However, play the same song on a soprano ukulele, concert ukulele, tenor ukulele, and then a baritone ukulele and you’d find a much larger range of sounds. If you have Jake Shimabukuro play the same song on four different tenor ukuleles of similar quality, you would notice that they sound different, but not in a huge way. The Effect of Size on Soundīesides the obvious physical differences, sound tops off the list of what makes the ukulele sizes unique. Every luthier uses different dimensions for each of their ukulele sizes. The scale, length, and fret specs presented below are just averages. A shorter scale forces the overtones into less space for a thick, fuzzy tone. A long scale gives the harmonics and overtones more room to ring and thus has a bright, chime-y sound. The tension and scale length also affect the tone of the ukulele. A set of soprano strings are chosen for those tensions and measurements.īut put those same strings on a 17″ tenor scale and try tuning it to GCEA and you’ll find that the tuning gets pretty tight before you reach concert pitch. It has a scale length of 13-14″ tuned to GCEA. 
The length of the scale affects the spacing of the frets, but it also changes how the strings feel to play and sound.Īll things being equal, a long scale has more string tension than a short scale. Think of a soprano ukulele.
“Scale length” refers to the distance of the ringing ukulele string, from the nut to the saddle:
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