Aloha and welcome to the new resource center. It is and will always be a work in progress but we hope you enjoy the information and media. At the end of Friday October 20 we will be sending 10 customers $200 credits to their customer account at our store, The Ukulele Site. Rules for entering are below. Aloha to all …
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Episode 23 – Kilin Reece – Two Centuries of Hawaii’s Strings
Fascinating dive into history from our friend Kilin! When we have these in stock they will be at the Pono section of our website HERE.
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Cancer and Ukes
Aloha! I know I usually review ukuleles, but I’m here today with a more personal story to share. Don’t worry: Ukulele is involved. My day job isn’t ripping on the ukulele for fun and profit - it’s actually serving in the US Air Force (whose views and policies I am not representing right now. No, this is all me). I ...
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Romero Creations Spruce Rosewood Grand Tenor
When I was thinking about getting into the ukulele after years of playing guitar, I needlessly tried to make life easier on myself and ordered a guilele, averting the drastic change of just getting an ukulele because A guilele is like a guitar with a capo on the fifth fret delivered in an ukulele-sized package. It’s pretty cool, and a ...
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Kala Elite Koa Soprano
Aloha! I know this is an ukulele review site, but I have an analogy for you before we begin because we’re going off-track for just a bit: A long time ago, I played my first Telecaster. It was an American Fender of some prestige, dripping with history and heritage, and I was very underwhelmed. The edges of the fretboard were ...
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Joji Yoshida
These are “raw” sound samples with no compression of mastering. Use quality headphones or monitors for most accurate sound.
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Maui Music
We have a featured builder page on Peter Lieberman's Maui Music line already from a batch a few years ago and you can see those models HERE. This is a look at a few of his recent build styles. Peter's always switching things up. He's putting lots of sound ports in these days, which just adds to the openness in ...
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Romero Creations
The Mahogany line also comes in a Grand Tenor and the amazing Ron Artis plays a new original on his in our hotel room at NAMM 2017. Another recording from NAMM 17. Pepe Sr. playing a Pepe Jr. guitar and Daniel on the Koa Tiny Tenor. Check out more videos with Daniel at our artist category.
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Cordoba Ukulele
We carry a few models from the 20 series all mahogany solid top series from Cordoba but mostly focus on their top tier uke line, the 30 series. This series was done with guidance from renown guitar and ukulele maker, Pepe Romero Jr. Their all solid wood instruments and while not "cheap", are still quite a good bang for your ...
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Episode 21 – String Comparison with Thomas Streng
Thomas Streng from Germany stopped by and we got to know him and jam some too. We also do a string comparison half way through. Enjoy! The new Ko’olau Aho FLuorocarbon strings are HERE