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Journey’s Handsome New J-Uke “Scoopaway” from Summer NAMM 2016
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,…
New Ukes from Cordoba
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…
#ThrowbackThursday To My First Ukulele
By Greg Olwell For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I wanted to make a personal post about my first ukulele. After playing guitar for many years, I fell in love with vintage Hawaiian music back in the mid-’90s. Soon after I…
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Kala Introduces Slim New Travel Ukuleles
Kala’s uke line is slimming down for summer. The company has released two new cutaway ukuleles that make an already portable instrument that much more so. In fact, the KASSTU-SMC-C concert size and the KA-SSTU-SMT-C tenor model are each less…