If you want to make your own chord charts on paper a chord stamp is going to save you a lot of time. Ukulele chord stamps aren’t always available but you can use a chord stamp for any four stringed instrument (e.g. mandolin or bass guitar). If you want to make them on the computer, [...]

It’s amazing how much the price of solid wood ukuleles has come down in recent years. This is partly due to the number of firms making solid wood ukes in the Far East and partly due to the greater use of woods other than mahogany and koa. Kala have taken advantage of both these trends [...]

Kala make a few spruce top ukuleles (including their travel ukulele). I have their Lacewood soparno (which has a spruce top) and really love it. It’s a very well made ukulele and the sound is very immediate and forceful. You can read my full Kala Lacewood review here but in a capsule review: buy it. [...]

In my opinion, the concert ukulele is the best all-round size of ukulele. It retains the distinctive sound of the soprano ukulele (which tenor ukuleles don’t always) while giving you an extra bit of room on the fretboard. If you’re thinking of getting a concert ukulele as your first uke, I’d recommend the Kala KA-C. [...]

Koa is the ultimate ukulele but it gets more expensive all the time. So enterprising ukulele makers have started using woods from the same family as koa, acacia, to make ukuleles that look at sound like koa at a much cheaper price. The first ukulele I noticed doing this was the Koa Pili Koko. Which [...]