How to buy ukulele[blog5]

How to buy ukulele

1.    Ukulele Body : is very affect to sound , good sound or bad sound is up to raw material , Mainly material Is from Solid wood and Laminated Wood                                                                                  

-         Laminated  - close the Surface with Laminated , sound will different by wood close skin with mahogany will provide soft void , if use sprunce will provide audio stream.

-         Solid – provide melodic , resound , identity of sound will change by type of wood , Maple wood will provide clear void , but price will increase by quality , and rarity of wood , for example Koa wood is most expensive because it’s only available in Hawaii and hard to find it .

2.    Fingerboard and Bridge Ukulele : medium grade , mostly use Rosewood to be fingerboard and Bridge it increased life time , and possesses strong , more resistant

3.    Fret : is the most problem of Ukulele , characteristic of fret will give you a strange sound while you playing , how to check fret Is easy , press cable to middle fret , then flip the fret until last cable, if not found , oK you can reliable.

4.    Size of Ukulele have 5 size along

     1. Sopranino 
     2. Soprano  
     3. Concert
     4. Tenor 
     5. Baritone 

But the most common is are

-         Soprano(21) small size , provide a pitched tones, small tone , Due to its small size , that made fingerboard small size same , amount of fret is 12 fret , but some produce have 15 fret , to support many kind of style , so ukulele soprano size original is comfortable to play strike a chords and sing a song , easy to carrying with traveling , who want more solo you can going to buy other type of soprano more fret then you can play more note.

-         Concert(23) : bigger from soprano affected to the sound , sound is tone deep , but still have sound like soprano , bigger body made it have more fret from 14 to 17 , up to style of it , it’s supported for finger picking style more.

-         Tenor (26) – bigger from concert and sound is deep and soft like guitar , up to raw material , have 17 – 19 fret and supported finger picking ( melody , solo ) as well , because size of finger board is big like body , Professional musician are popular use this .

String of Ukulele : quality of cable is affected to the sound like body , different brand is different sound same, for the popular brand cable is Aquila String property is soft and loun.