Amigo is a brand made by Hora, in Reghin (RO).
Some thing that might interest you:
- they build their instruments in very large batches with months in between each instrument type, meaning that there are significant differences between batches: fretboard material, bracing, headstock shape... One Hora baritone may not look exactly like another one!
- on the up-side, Hora only uses local (Eastern European) woods, used in solid slices. The factory is in the middle of the Carpathians, and especially their spruce and maple is excellent (their 'bread and butter' are violins and double basses).
- their ukuleles are all on the smaller side of the traditional sizes, save for the sopranos which are normal size. This results in a rather low string tension with regular strings. Try some high tension strings!
- sometimes they're built a bit too heavy, sometimes not. The export models have slightly better finishes (fret dressing, glue residue, sloppy paint marks.
- their strings are rubbish, but then again replacing them isn't costly.
- solid instruments at the lowest possible price!
