So far, so good with mine, which I've had since 11/03/17. A few weeks after it arrived I saw the unfavorable Amazon review, so I contacted an experienced ukulele acquaintance who had purchased an HPL tenor in September (his second Enya); at that point he had had no problems. Good luck to all (including me) as we get farther out from our initial receipt. I know issues may take a while to develop, but so far I'm very happy with my purchase.