igorthebarbarian
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It's a baby! Wow, it's tiny but adorable. It's like a midget uke. The Ohana sopranissimo, the Ohana O'Nino.
MIM got a whole bunch of them sent out and I was on the pre-order list. As always, MIM has done a great setup and delivered with quick, safe shipping.
These O'Nino's are definitely cute and worth the small investment for a pretty rare-sized uke. Also, given its small stature, it would make a great travel uke.
Note, it doesn't fit in the Sopranino hard case because of the geared tuners. I think it would though if you had friction tuners. I think the geared tuners here are good quality and seem to hold tuning well/ turn easily. It's not super head-heavy either.
The uke is small. I have attached a photo in here of the sopranissimo O'Nino on the left, the SK-21A sopranino cedar top, and a Famous Soprano uke.
If you ever wanted the Soprano to feel like a Tenor or a Baritone, go play a Sopranissimo or Sopranino. I have fairly small hands so I can play the new O'Nino pretty easily. It's definitely tight though and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone with big fingers/ big hands/ big fingertips. Definitely would be awesome for kids looking to get into the ukulele.
The first thing I did was swap out the Aquila strings for my favored Worth Brown's. I had a set of Browns that I had taken off another Soprano, that I had kept in anticipation (also helped that they were already pre-stretched a bit). You can see in one of the photos the extra length leftover compared to the normal Soprano string length.
Also, I tuned mine up to E tuning. Regular C would be too floppy and D tuning seemed too low too. I had it all the way up to F briefly (CFAD) but dialed it back a half-step. It seems to be a good tuning for such a short scale.
But I would like to know if that E tuning is too high? It doesn't feel like it but if someone can let me know, or do the math, that'd be great. Thanks!
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MIM got a whole bunch of them sent out and I was on the pre-order list. As always, MIM has done a great setup and delivered with quick, safe shipping.
These O'Nino's are definitely cute and worth the small investment for a pretty rare-sized uke. Also, given its small stature, it would make a great travel uke.
Note, it doesn't fit in the Sopranino hard case because of the geared tuners. I think it would though if you had friction tuners. I think the geared tuners here are good quality and seem to hold tuning well/ turn easily. It's not super head-heavy either.
The uke is small. I have attached a photo in here of the sopranissimo O'Nino on the left, the SK-21A sopranino cedar top, and a Famous Soprano uke.
If you ever wanted the Soprano to feel like a Tenor or a Baritone, go play a Sopranissimo or Sopranino. I have fairly small hands so I can play the new O'Nino pretty easily. It's definitely tight though and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone with big fingers/ big hands/ big fingertips. Definitely would be awesome for kids looking to get into the ukulele.
The first thing I did was swap out the Aquila strings for my favored Worth Brown's. I had a set of Browns that I had taken off another Soprano, that I had kept in anticipation (also helped that they were already pre-stretched a bit). You can see in one of the photos the extra length leftover compared to the normal Soprano string length.
Also, I tuned mine up to E tuning. Regular C would be too floppy and D tuning seemed too low too. I had it all the way up to F briefly (CFAD) but dialed it back a half-step. It seems to be a good tuning for such a short scale.
But I would like to know if that E tuning is too high? It doesn't feel like it but if someone can let me know, or do the math, that'd be great. Thanks!
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