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Got A Ukulele
5d ago
Back this week with a ukulele from a brand that has grown to be extremely popular in the uke world. This is the Snail UKC-470 Quilted Ash Concert.
After a few weeks at the more expensive end of the scale, this offering from Snail is more at the value end, being made from all laminate tone woods in the body. That's cool with me and as I always say, i'd take a good quality laminate over a poorly made solid wood uke that is 'solid for the sake of it' any day of the week. Yet for laminate, this is clearly not a boring hunk of brown saplele but rather a striking ukulele made from a wood I have ..read more
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1w ago
Well it IS St Patrick's Day after all! With this weeks ukulele we hop over to Ireland to look at the 'Synergy Uke' Harp Ukulele from Emerald Guitars. Hold on to your hats.. there's a lot to get through here!
Emerald Guitars are instrument makers based in Donegal, Ireland set up by luthier Alastair Hay and well known for their carbon fibre instruments and out of the ordinary designs. That material choice seems to run deep with Alastair who originally worked with his father in his fibreglass engineering company. That led to Alastair doing a work exchange to St Louis in which he worked with ..read more
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1M ago
It's always nice to get a ukulele brand that surprised me out of the blue back on the site with another offering. This is the Caravelle Kitchen Jazz Manouche Concert Elite Ukulele.
Caravelle Kitchen is the home made brand of Matthieu Theuret from the south west coast of France, and if you want to know more about the intriguing back story (and name) take a look a the Monoxyl Mezzo Soprano of his I looked at recently. I liked that one a great deal so was excited when he offered to lend me another style of his he has become well known for. And striking it is - a gypsy jazz guitar inspired uku ..read more
Got A Ukulele
1M ago
It's not often I look at two ukuleles from the same series, but with my desire to give more exposure to baritone ukes on this site, when the invitation to borrow this one from Kala came along, I couldn't say no. This is the Kala KA-CT-SA-BG Baritone from their new 'Contour Series'.
Another mouthful of a name (Kala names are always cumbersome, but do make some sense when you decode), but these are already recoginsable to uke players as the 'Kala Contours' which are a new set of modern shaped ukuleles in tenor and baritone in a variety of wood options. You may recall I looked that the Contou ..read more
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1M ago
Another much featured ukulele brand on Got A Ukulele this week. And i'm not entirely sure why I haven't gotten around to reviewing this one before now. This is the Enya EUT-MAD Tenor Ukulele.
It's quite a few years ago now that Enya first crossed the Got A Ukulele path, I think with their (fun and cheap) HPL bodied ukes in the first instances. Then came the Nova's, the feathers, the Taimane's, even a couple of guitars. They've always done well with me as being on the innovative side, that little bit different, and always well made and finished for reasonable prices. They are also one of tho ..read more
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2M ago
A ukulele brand I always enjoy looking at this week, with another variation on their highly popular theme. This is the new aNueNue UC-110 'Green Bird' Concert ukulele.
The Bird series from aNueNue perhaps needs no introduction, but they started some years ago with their incredibly popular 'Moon Bird' ukulele and have since been added to with an array of alternatives that use the same shape. This 'Green Bird' is one of the latest in their re-boots of this modern shaped, staggered shoulder ukuleles. Hey, if you've developed a popular theme, why would you not keep offering variants?
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2M ago
Now and again a ukulele series comes along that makes me think 'ooh, that goes beyond the norm for that brand'.. This one did that with me. This is the Kala CT-SMH-TG Tenor from their new Contour Series of ukuleles.
What am I getting at with that introduction? Well, I have reviewed a LOT of Kala ukuleles over many years of running this website and i've been getting a bit bored if I am honest. When you take out the one-offs like the Revelator and the Elite I have always said in reviews that I have found their models were getting very samey and almost old fashioned. They were one of my first ..read more
Got A Ukulele
2M ago
Just a bit of a giggle for you between the actual ukulele reviews. This is the LEGO Tropical Ukulele...
UKULELE VIDEO REVIEW
UKULELE SPECS ROUNDUP
Model: LEGO Tropical Ukulele 3 in 1 kit (31156)
Scale: Sub Soprano - 5.7 inch scale
Body: LEGO bricks
Bridge: Clip on
Saddle: Integral
Spacing at saddle: 23mm
Neck: LEGO
Fingerboard: LEGO
Frets: Fretless
Nut: Integral
Tuners: Decorative
Number of pieces: 387
Extras: Beach stand and hibiscus flowers
Strings: Bass strings by LEGO
Country of origin: Denmark
Price: £24.99
© Barry Maz
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Got A Ukulele
2M ago
It's 2024 and Got A Ukulele returns with a brand much featured here and well liked. This is the Snail UKC-380 Concert Ukulele.
Snail have been around for a while now and always represent an alternative brand to the Kala's, Ohana's and more recently the Flight's. They've been on this site many times and have usually done pretty well. This one may be a new model (I am not sure) as I am not yet seeing it in many stores, so was loaned to me kindly by the UK Snail distributor Red Chilli Audio.
SUMMARY VIDEO REVIEW
The UKC-380 is a standard double bout concert scale ukulele with a tradit ..read more
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3M ago
It’s the final Got A Ukulele review of 2023 and I close with a model that his been requested a LOT in recent months. This is the Flight 4SB Sammy Turton signature Tenor Ukulele.
Flight are no strangers to signature models and this is their latest offering for one of their Flight Artists. The ‘4SB’ moniker here is for ‘4stringboy’, the performance name of ukulele player, performer and teacher Sammy Turton who many in the uke world will know. Sammy is a Brit who lives in Denmark and if you have seen his videos, is a terrific player. And whilst I usually raise an eyebrow a little with signatu ..read more