Mele Ukulele<\/a> has some beautiful instruments and a really nice staff. The price of their instruments is a little out of my range, since I am just a beginner, but it was nice to see some quality koa ukuleles and be able to hear them first-hand. While talking to one of the guys who “seemed” to work there (maybe he was just hanging out), he recommended I get a concert size ukulele to play, rather than the standard size. He said they sound fuller and will be more versatile.<\/p>\nI already have a really cheap Johnson standard ukulele which I broke, so I wanted a new one. The bridge snapped off, and although I was able to reattach and glue it cleanly, it is out of tune. Plus the tuning pegs were terrible and it never really stayed in tune for more than a minute or two. Bay still likes to play that one, though. It’s his “guitar”.<\/p>\n
Anyways, today I ordered a concert ukulele, Hilo brand. It is not expensive, but seems to be ok for a student. It was $39.99+shipping. I will play around with it and see if I stick with the ukulele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While on Maui last week, my brothers, father, and I stopped by a ukulele store in Wailuku. Mele Ukulele has some beautiful instruments and a really nice staff. The price of their instruments is a little out of my range, since I am just a beginner, but it was nice to see some quality koa … Continue reading New Ukulele<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Fk3x-5M1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.takoyaki.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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