Review: Fender Piha`ea ‘Red Hula’ Ukulele
The Fender Piha`ea ukulele offers surprisingly powerful projection and reasonable tonal response at a price tag under $100.
Gear Reviews
Great Ukes: Martin’s Style 3 Was a Favorite of Many Notable Players
Introduced in 1915 at a price of $25, this was one of the most expensive ukuleles on the market at the time
Kanile’a KSTP Tenor Ukulele Review
The Kanile`a KSTP is an heirloom ukulele. It’s the kind of instrument that you can reward yourself with and keep for a lifetime of fun and exploration.
Review: Tanglewood’s TUJ5 & TUJ1 Acacia Koa Ukuleles Offer Great Tone for Less
By Ken Hughes | From the Spring 2015 issue of Ukulele Spending some quality time with a good uke is always a joy. And when that uke also happens to be made of desirable woods and comes at a very…
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Gretsch Camp Uke and Long-Neck Soprano Uke
By Ken Hughes Like a handful of other storied, American instrument manufacturers, Gretsch participated in the first uke boom nearly a century ago, and the fact that the company is still around to take part in the current surge in…
Blackbird Clara
The idea started with having an instrument for the maker’s four-year-old daughter and turned into a concert-sized ukulele that’s collecting design awards. Made from an new bio-based composite material called Ekoa, the Blackbird Clara is an innovative new ukulele from…
Seagull Merlin
Let us be the first to say, the Seagull Merlin—it is not a ukulele. It’s not even an instrument that really existed before Seagull invented what it calls the “strummable dulcimer,” but it’s so charming and user-friendly that ukulele players…
Collings UC1 Concert & UT2K Tenor Ukuleles
By Adam Perlmutter [Editor’s note: Collings has put ukulele production on hiatus since this review appeared.] In its four-decade history, Collings Guitars has made smart, modern interpretations of the widest range of golden-era guitar designs—acoustic and electric, flattop and archtop—not…
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These LuLus Are Real Head Turners
It can be hard being the guy that brings a ukulele to a jam session. Though true lovers of the jumping flea know what joy the instrument can bring, they also know the pain of the groans and guffaws it…
Two Kala Tenors Up For Review
By Breeze Kinsey / Excerpted from Ukulele No. 6, Fall 2014 The word kala has a handful of meanings in Hawaiian. According to Mike Upton, the founder of Kala Brand ukuleles, the connotations range from “a unicorn fish” to “slang for…