The sound of an acoustic instrument, be that the tone, projection or sustain depends on many many factors. I asked myself if the benefit of producing louder sound, if any using double back construction, outweighs the additional materials and works needed and hence results in a slightly heavier product. The contemplation of building one has been on my mind for sometimes now. If people out there have done this before please share your thoughts with us here. For comparison, we need to build two similar ukuleles using a similar wood combination, except one with double back. Even two similar ukuleles could produce two different sounds. But I shall be looking at projection among others.
By the way, as I did a bit or searching, the idea of double back has been done long time ago on classical guitars. Allow me to point to this article http://www.granadaexpert.com/johnray/the-double-back/ and this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf0cB3eVna8
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