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Episode 15 – Abe Lagrimas Jr.

I've known Abe for a long time, even did the finishing and final work on the uke he was playing in this podcast when I worked at Ko'olau. So we go way back and he continues to just refine his diverse and improvisational style. Enjoy the discussion and learn more about Abe at his website - HERE.
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Episode 14 Pete Howlett

Pete is a great luthier from the UK. We talk about what brought him here, the challenges he's now facing, and Corey as well as Aaron give this koa tenor he brought along a sample and review. We recently got one of Pete's ukes and look forward to getting more in the future.

Episode 13 – Tobias Elof

Tobias is an awesome uke player from Denmark. He's the only person I know of that actually majored in ukulele at his university. And as you can hear, he graduated with honors. He's a fun and fantastic musician playing all kinds of folk styles and now is creating his own style of meditational music with the ukulele. We pick his ...
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Understanding Your Options

This is what we do every day, help people understand the different options available in the ukulele market. People come into the store that know nothing about ukulele we do our best to educate them and point them in the right direction. Emails and calls are often covering the various specifications of instruments and how they affect the sound and …

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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 ...