Soon we will offer this upgrade on all brands and models with friction keys so stay tuned. Thanks for hangin’ out at the review, and for sharing your experience. Aloha~
ALDRINE GUERRERO’S KANILE’A
Almost every week we get instruments from Kanile’a with tremendously beautiful Koa. These last a few days at the most on our website and then disappear . This instrument didn’t make it through the morning so I decided to post it here. Why? Because it’s insanely gorgeous! Radical Koa gives mind altering pleasure! You all know who Aldrine Guerrero is, right? He’s probably most …
4 Tenors from $500-$700
These ukes are fairly new models and they are my top choices for a tenor in this price range. You can sometimes find local builders in this price range but these are a notch above what I have seen. Heck, next floor up from some I have seen. When you lay down over 500 bucks you want a super musical …
KoAloha Custom Solid Body Tenor Electric!
This is a 7 piece neck-thru solid body tenor from the ever innovative KoAloha company. Not only is it the coolest thing I've ever seen but the sounds you can get are endless! KoAloha knocks this one out of the park. How's Corey's sample?
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New Pono Solid Body Tenor!
When I got into work this morning I saw a a new Ko’olau on my photo table. CE-2.. it looks like…Wait…it’s not a a Ko’olau…This is the new Pono Tenor electric! A chambered solid body electric and it’s so nice! I am truly ecstatic to see and hear the quality of this new TE model. These will sell for 649 …
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The other sounds -Percussion on your Ukulele –
This is one of three short lessons from Aaron Crowell. The other two are soon to come and cover more random techniques and ideas for your ukulele. This one is a latin rhythm and uses the frets to simulate the güiro, that scraper sound in latin rhythms. So give it a shot and give us some feedback. Easy, hard? (Or are …
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3 KoAloha Soprano’s Compared-KSM-00, KSM-02 & KSM-T2
Here is a short video/sound sample of 3 KoAloha soprano's. All three are gloss so this is not a gloss vs. satin comparison. We'll have to cover that another time. This shows the 3 neck lengths that KoAloha offers for the soprano size. The regular KoAloha has the 13" soprano scale and has become a classic little cannon of sound. ...
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HMS Listening Booth – 4 Kanilea Tenors
So here's another listening booth and this one has 4 gorgeous tenors crafted on the windward side of our island, Oahu. These all retail between 12-1500 usd, they are all Koa, and they are all Kanilea. This audio slightly differs from previous "listening booths". In logic I did a stereo spread from the mono signal to "open it up" and ...
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HMS Listening Booth- 3 Hawaiian Tenors
This "Listening Booth" has a Ko'olau T100 Spruce/Rosewood, a deluxe koa Tenor Kanile`a, and a koa tenor KoAloha and a Corey Fujimoto. All seemed exceptional to me. This was done as dry and flat as you get. No compression beyond what must happen at upload, just bare mono. Earthworks setup is talked about in the last blog... This comparison is ...
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HMS Listening Booth – Pono Tenor in Various Tonewoods
This is part of a new series of videos that we will offer for your comparison purposes. These are recorded with a Earthworks QTC-40. It is known for it's flat frequency response and for being accurate and uncolored. It is brought to level with an Earthworks ZDT preamp that is also known for it's exceptional transparency. It is then recorded through a Apogee interface ...