Comments on: Christmas Gifts for Ukulele Players: First Ukulele

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:46:07 +0000

Thanks for that mk47.

By: mk47

mk47 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:34:57 +0000

the applause U-A10 by ovation guitars is a very nice uke for the priceits rugged with its round plastic back which all of ovations instruments holdand is a fairly cheap price i love mine

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:20:30 +0000

I didn’t forget. I’d never heard of it :)

Looks like a cool shop.

By: weelie

weelie — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:35:34 +0000

as for German uke shops, don’t forget http://ukulele24.de/

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:37:44 +0000

Ooh… are we fantasizing about ukes that we most lekely won’t end up getting any time soon?

How about this nice Kanile’a that I ran across on Ebay… Link

or this… a nice, 3,000 USD ukulele…

http://www.koolauukulele.com/model500.html

If I ever win a lottery…….

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:17:22 +0000

Show off :P

By: zym

zym — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 00:03:05 +0000

ive already got my eye on a KoAloha ;)

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:49:58 +0000

Ian: That's a good looking uke. I wasn't familiar with Mitchell. It looks fairly similar to the Oscar Schmidt and the Ashbury ukes. No bad thing. zym: You've just got me browsing the Ukulele Shop. Very dangerous. I've been checking out the KoAlanas as a consolation prize for deciding I can't afford a KoAloha Sceptre.

By: zym

zym — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:28:45 +0000

Ive got the CK-35
Its the mahogany one with the binding.

It comes with Aqulia strings so its nice and bright, but its also quite mellow when im playing with my thumb.

I havent had any problems with the tuners so far.
*touches wood*

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:23:50 +0000

Though it’s not exactly a starter uke…. so far my favourite ‘budget’ ukulele that I”ve played on is teh Mitchell Koa (Mu-100 or something like that). Though the koa is a laminate, it still sounds very nice… pretty good sustain and a nice bright tone. They also have a mahogany that costs around 100 dollars; it’s nice… but it’s not… koa. Guess that’s pretty much the only way to put it.

I think my Mitchell ran me about 160 USD… well worth the money spent.

(and honest, I wasn’t paid by Mitchell to say this… wish I was, though… oh well)