New tenor proto-type on Facebook.
New tenor proto-type on Facebook.
Phenolic nut and saddle, round neck and obviously larger sound box. My prediction is that this will end up being the uke they should have made in the first place.
I'm hoping they implement these details for the soprano. I've been wanting one for a while, but holding out for a redesign. The tenor would be perfect for my husband and an improved soprano would be perfect for me.
The shape of the OU neck probably would be a nuisance to those who learned to play guitar with the strangling thumb over the neck. And you need to do that for some guitar styles.
On a uke you can do quite well by keeping your thumb against your fingers on the back of the neck, and if you do that with the OU it is a very fast neck, especially for barre chords.
It is interesting how there are people who want a plastic wooden uke to be made by OU and still don't get the simple fact that it is about the outdoors, like you can take it when you go on a real hike. Possibly this is because of how much it costs so it gets grouped with low cost wooden ukes, but it is not really in that category of uke. If you want a low cost indoor uke, you may be disappointed with an OU.
Not my kind of uke, as I don't hike, etc. But I'm glad to see OU perserveering here, because they do meet a need. And what was that, didn't Henry Ford go bankrupt a couple times before he finally succeeded? Stepping stones... We all have them.
New tenor proto-type on Facebook.