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Hoffmann Ukulele

The Company Jerry Hoffman is a master craftsman and creator from New Haven, Missouri. He went way beyond the manual on how to build an ukulele and came out with wonderful innovations. Each aspect of his builds reflect inventive thought and development, and these ukes are built to project well and still last through many generations of joyful play. Hoffmann ...
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Kanile’a

Kanile'a is one of the popular local builders on the island. In fact we sell more Kanile'a in store and on line than any other high end ukulele brand. That's because they look beautiful, sound great, and while they aren't cheap by any means, they're quite the value all across the line. Joe and Kristen Souza run this humidity controlled ...
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KoAloha

KoAloha is one of our favorite uke makers. These ukes sound awesome and are a joy to play. This company started over 20 years ago from Alvin Okami and his sons. They came with an original approach to building. A unique design and structure with their signature "unibrace", a one piece internal bracing support for the top, back, and sides. ...
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Moore Bettah

Corey and Kalei together sampled the last few that came in.

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Episode 12 – Do it Yourself Ukulele Setup

So we were thinking this might be a useful subject to cover. We understand many of you have ukes that were not setup to play and sound as great as possible and thought we could share some tips that might prove to be useful for any guy or gal handy and willing to give it a shot. Let us know ...
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Episode 11 – Starting to Improvise with Kalei Gamiao

With this podcast we started to film the podcast. We won't always do a video of the podcast but with ones like this it really helps to see what Kalei is doing to best pick up on how to benefit from what he teaches. Even though you might already know about the things Kalei is teaching it's still cool to ...

Episode 10 – Beau Hannamm

Beau is a fun and crazy guy that builds a mean uke and we had him over when he visited Hawaii to talk ukes and more. You can see some of the ukes Beau has made for us here at the custom builders section. We don't often have anything to offer from Beau but let us know if you're interested ...

Episode 9 – Mike Upton from Kala

In this podcast we get to know Mike Upton, owner of Kala Brand music company. Mike is a super cool guy that I've known for about 15 years now and it's been an amazing thing to witness him first starting his own line of ukes and now growing to be the biggest uke company in the world. We discuss that ...

Episode 8 – Ryan and Noa from Ko’olau

In this episode we get to know the duo that builds the custom Ko'olau line. Noa's my brother and these guys work in the same building as us so we naturally sell a lot of Ko'olau but we truly respect these guys and the precision of their work. What they do is absolutely top notch and we'd be saying that ...