once again triggered by a review on gotaukulele.com i laid my hands on this handmade ukulele from caravelle kitchen in France. concert scale, spruce top, mango body – and the shape of an old selmer macaferri “gypsy” guitar. came with martin m600 strings which i swapped for a set of fremont black medium low-g –…
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before i saw this instrument in a review on gotaukulele.com i did not even know 8-strings existed in concert scale. i love my pono, but i still struggle with the tenor scale every now and then. so the combination of 8-string sound with my preferred concert scale sounds almost too good to be true. noah…
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ain’t she sweet? a sopranino, how cute….. and tuned like a “normal” uke, not an octave higher like the iukes. the combination of both was interesting enough to give it a go. the fact that the whole body and neck are carved from a single piece of mahogany comes as an engineering bonus on top….
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official model is ka-sstu-fmcp: kala spruce soprano travel ukulele – flamed maple compass small, flat, yet surprisingly loud. solid spruce top, flamed maple (laminated) back and sides. closed geared tuners and an embedded compass in the headstock – after all it is a travel ukulele 😉 came with the usual aquila strings which i didn’t…
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