Straight out of Kamloops, British Columbia, Riversong’s Mike Miltimore showed off the company’s new ukulele at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville. The Riversong Trad SE ukulele includes several features unique to Riversong. The neck flows through the Trad…
Luna Guitars showed off its ukulele baritone bass at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville. Luna’s baritone basses, are different from other bass ukuleles, though. The Luna Uke Baritone A/E is made with a baritone body, a 21-inch scale, and use…
Cordoba sales manager Ryan Cooper showed off additions to the company’s most popular line, the 15 series, plus new wood choices for the ukulele-like Mini-Guitar. The Cordoba 15TM is a tenor version of the company’s best-selling all-mahogany line. The soprano…
You’ve heard of a pineapple-shaped ukulele, but the new Pineapple from Hawaiian Ukulele and Guitar, introduced at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, is something else. The bowl-shaped back is carved into from a single piece of golden acacia,…
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By Greg Olwell Journey instruments introduced a new “scoopaway” concert ukulele at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee. The Journey J-uke UC770C is made from meranti, a Southeast Asian wood also known as Philippine mahogany. The top is solid meranti,…
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Text and photos by Jim D’Ville You can’t get much deeper into the heart of Texas than the Hill Country city of Kerrville, an hour drive northwest of San Antonio. If you had visited Kerrville in 1929, you may have…
By Greg Olwell Cordoba is introducing two new ukuleles——at next week’s Summer NAMM show in Nashville, Tennessee. Two new ukuleles expand on the format and design of the company’s top-seller, the all-mahogany Cordoba 15CM. First up is the 15CM-E concert, which…
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By Greg Olwell Ukulele players Bryan Tolentino and Herb Ohta Jr. won big at this weekend’s Na Hoku Hanohano awards in Honolulu, taking home the Ukulele Album of the Year award. The awards celebrate Hawaiian music and given by Hawaiian…
By Greg Olwell When a large power outage in downtown Seattle left a woman stranded in an elevator, a ukulele player knew just what might help ease a frightening situation. Play a song on his ukulele. When the woman was…