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Location: GA USA | The Flea is really cool looking, and now for the first time I notice that they are available in concert size. Is this a good option?
And since I do play my Oscar currently in the church band from time to time, would the soundboard transducer be good enough, or is the under-saddle much better? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Flea comes in soprano or concert size. Fluke is a tad bit bigger than concert but smaller than tenor. Up to you, but I would still opt for the Kala or Lanikai koa tenor.
I had a s/b transducer on a Vineyard uke and it would feed back like a wild monkey getting a prostate exam. Total trash. I use a Fishman undersaddle specially designed for uke (thanks AL) and it works great. |
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Location: Scotland | Good quality Soundboard transducers are never a great idea on instruments with large soundboards but they can work great on ukes, dulcimers mandolins etc. Ukes are so small and high-pitched that it is difficult to get them into helmholtz feedback regardless of the type of transducer used. The usual fault with a soundboard tranducer on a Uke is it's either in the wrong place or more likely is not seated correctly, or it's a combination of those 2 factors. Also, soundboard transducers need to be mechanically damped on their reverse (non-pickup) side or they have a tendency to go nuts.
Personally I think soundboard transducers sound much better than UST's on ukes. |
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Location: GA USA | Thanks. I knew the two of you would be there to help. |
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Location: GA USA | Thanks to Dave, Paul, and Randy, I think I have decided what uke to upgrade to:
Kala KA-KCE
I really think I want to stay with a concert size, and want koa and AE capability. Good choice?
I also registered at Ukulele Underground . Seems to be a wealth of info and tabs there. |
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Location: GATLINBURG TENNESSEE :) | I'm pretty happy with mine. now I just have to figure out which of the gazillion tunings to use. Anybody have a good link to the best on-line uke tunings website? |
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Location: big island | what size uke y'got, vince? |
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Location: GA USA | Update: I ordered my new uke today.
A Mainland concert, solid mahogany, bone nut & saddle, with a MI-SI undersaddle pickup installed (it's battery free - you power it up with its charger for one minute and play for 16 hours), and a cool tweed case. Should be here by the weekend.
I went back & forth between the Mainland, a Kala KA-ASMCE-C, and Pono PCO-E, but the Mainland won out with that Woody's Roundup look. |
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Location: big island | yeah. it has more character, huh jas?
"jess" like you! |
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Location: GA USA | Ride like the wind, Bullseye!
Thanks again to Randy, Paul and Dave for the answers and info. |
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Location: big island | i've never heard of that brand before (perhaps "mainland" has something to do with it) but i sure like the looks of your new "jumping flea"! sweet. |
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Location: big island | a very enthused mainland ukulele owner!
this is a tenor sized uke and it sounds VERY nice.
thanks, jas! |
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Location: Las Vegas, NV | Paniolo-style! I like it! |
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Location: GA USA | Well, I've been checking out the reviews and forums at ukuleleunderground dot com. The crowd there is very high on Mainland.
I was telling the boys at Samba that when you check out that forum, you say... okay, there's THEIR Cliff, their Temp, their Al... I even found their Jason. I wonder if every active forum is like that? I joined a social group called Southeast Ukers, and we're having a big cookout/jam next month. Should be fun. Any time you get together and play music, right? |
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