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…
Gear Reviews
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…
D’Addario Planet Waves NS Ukulele CapoPro
As with many parents of small children, the last several months of my life have been filled with songs from Disney’s animated film Frozen. The story of two sisters coming into their own has struck a chord with my little…
Kala UBASS-SSMHG-FS and Bakithi Kumalo Signature U-Bass
If there's any instrument that can match the ukulele for soul-stirring goodness and deep emotional power, it's the bass. The folks at Kala must have felt that way, too, because when the company created the U-Bass by mixing ukulele and bass together in one instrument, it was a genius move up there with combining chocolate and peanut butter.
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National Reso-Phonic Style O
Even before the rise of that demon electricity, our forebears craved more volume from their acoustic instruments. In the process of looking for loudness, they tried many solutions, like building larger instruments or stealing the archtop idea from the violin…
Review: Cordoba 22 Series Ukuleles
Review of the Cordoba 22T and Cordoba 22C ukuleles.
Lanikai SOTTU-T Tenor Thinline and LUTU-21S
Lanikai smelled something fishy about ukuleles and spent the last three years working on a way to improve the instrument’s intonation. Borrowing from decades of guitar design innovations and focusing it on the jumping flea, they came up with a…
Rick Turner Compass Rose Style-C Tenor
When it comes to making instruments, Rick Turner is a man of unbridled enthusiasm. He simply loves searching through the dustbins of history for the best ideas and synthesizing those with his own concepts to make singular guitars, basses, and…
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Review: Fender Kimmy Stafford Nohea Tenor Ukulele
Here's a look at Train frontman Kimmy Stafford's signature Nohea Fender ukulele, developed after the sweet sound of a uke appeared on Train’s hit “Hey, Soul Sister.”
Review: The Outdoor Soprano Ukulele
Review of the durable plastic Outdoor ukulele.