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Listening to Ukuleles Online

From the beginning of music stores, the main thing that we provide is a place for people to hear, see, feel and acquire musical instruments. Ideally salesman are knowledgeable musicians that can show the potential or at least basic tones to those getting into it or share their experiences and of course the newest toys coming out to their fellow ...
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Ko’olau Master Series – Orchid Dragonfly Brazilian Rosewood Tenor

Once every year or so Noa and John from Ko'olau design a one of a kind instrument for what they call, The Master Series. For this one they worked with one of the most famous and talented inlay artists, Larry Robinson. This concept started a few years back with just orchids but more recently Noa sent it back to Larry ...
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Hoffmann Lutherie – A Style Custom Tenor

Aloha friends! We have a cool new uke to show you from a custom luthier in Missouri named Jerry Hoffmann. From 2005-2015 Jerry built under the name of Boat Paddle Ukulele Co. He is now operating under the name Hoffmann Lutherie. This is the first time we have gotten an instrument from Jerry and I'm truly impressed with the unique ...
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New Ukes from Pono!

Here's a listen to some of the new Pono models that just arrived. Soon you'll see them at our store - The Ukulele Site. These videos are all from one session where the Mics and levels are untouched so it's a fair listen to the different instruments being sampled. Pono is consistently experimenting and revising their line up and these ...
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Beau Hannam Maccaferri Style Custom Tenor

Beau Hanamm – Custom Maccaferri Tenor' This is a Beau Hannam Maccaferri Tenor ukulele custom made for someone that had to pass on it and we scooped it up to show you guys. If you don't remember I reviewed one in 2013 here-. That one sounded great and we were eager to hear another. Let's take a look at it ...
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Ko’olau CS Models – 3 Custom Orders

Most of the Ko'olau instruments that come through are custom orders and we often don't have time to document them, but each one is an amazing musical instrument. The woods, strings, and player just color the beautiful voicing that they have. This is 3 custom ordered CS model Ko'olaus that are just now ready to go out to their joyful ...
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Craig Chee & Sarah Maisel’s GHS “Artist Curated” Strings

These two incredible musicians have been working with the folks at GHS and designed these new string sets to best suite their style. Maybe you will like them too. They are available now at our store here GHS Artist Curated. Sarah's is a Low G tenor set with monofilament nylon strings and a fluorocarbon low G. Craig's set it actually ...
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A New Body Shape from DaSilva

This is a new design from Mike DaSilva with a wider lower bout. Who doesn't love a big bootie when it looks this good! I declare quilted maple king of figured wood! A very different tenor from DaSilva, bigger and more gorgeous than ever, And the sound.... Our sound samples are recorded for true reference and have no alteration or ...
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At the Listening Booth w/ Andreas David

Aloha friends! This is another video for the listening booth and we had the pleasure of recording a very cool musician from Berlin named Andreas David. What we're sampling is 4 similar models in Pono's Pro Classic line. These are all tenors. We have spruce rosewood, then cedar rosewood, then spruce mahogany, and finally cedar mahogany. So if you are ...