Therefore it holds great sentimental value and that is why I still own it today.īuy one at the Universal Worldwide Trading Website. 1) it was purchased on my first trip the land of paradise 2) It is adorned with many stickers I collected on said trip 3) It still holds some sand from the beaches of Oahu. But it has 3 redeeming qualities for myself. But judging from the tinny sound of the mal-tuned strings it would not be pleasant.Īll in all it is a bad ukulele. This was the ‘coolest design’ of the cheap ukuleles I could find.Īs for the sound of the thing, I never could really tell since I could never get it tuned. Below the bridge the word ‘Aloha’ is printed. The front of the body was printed with a surfboard and flower pattern and the word ‘Hawaii’ written in curly font. The body has taken a beating and has chipped and scratched very easily. It however has not budged a bit, unlike the neck. On the other end the bridge is made of plastic and looks to be merely glued in the same fashion the rock steady neck was casually squirted with a few drops of wood glue and slapped on. They seem sturdy and when the first attempts to hold a tune failed miserably, they were easily tightened to hold on a bit better. The keys actually seem to be pretty good quality plastic. The fretboard is painted wood with metal inlays (I didn’t get the lowest of the flea market bunch. I think it is actually some sort of particle board. The ukulele seems to be made of wood, but it really seems to me more like really dense cardboard.
This was startling to say the least and convinced me I should get a real ukulele. One dramatic attempt to tune it ended in a violent snap as the tightness of the strings ripped the neck right off the body. This ukulele cannot be tuned and will not hold a tune for anything. I couldn’t leave without a ukulele! I paid about $15 for it and as musical instruments go it was probably not worth it.īeing very new to the ukulele world, I struggled to tune the ukulele while learning the sound of the tuning I was not yet familiar with (I played guitar previously, so was a bit befuddled by this strange new ‘slack string’ tuning). I bought it at the flea market in Honolulu, and I confess, as more of a novelty than anything else. This is the first ukulele I ever purchased while on my first trip to Hawaii.
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