plunker
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The Sidekick has been out a while. Enough for the price to go up anyway. Any feed. One of the top three on my Christmas list.
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UkeStuff
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Are we talking about the banjo ukulele that preceded the Duke that is now available? $219 on Amazon for the Sidekick, whereas the Duke is now $379 but includes electronics.
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Do a search on UU. Someone did an extensive review after getting their Sidekick maybe a year ago. IIRC it was a very positive review. Good luck!
A friend of mine got one and it was just about unplayable, it had a number of issues. He worked on it a lot to resolve the issues and it plays and sounds fine now. He bought a luthier built banjo uke and gave the Sidekick to me. I enjoy the sound and it plays very well now.
As Maiden Uke said there was a very positive review done by SteveZ, if I am not mistaken. He is very knowledgable about different instruments.
As Maiden Uke said there was a very positive review done by SteveZ, if I am not mistaken. He is very knowledgable about different instruments.
strumsilly
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I bought one when they first came out. I thought it was cheaply made and sent it back. Just my opinion, others like them.
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plunker
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THink I got answers below. Pays your money takes your chances. I am thinking about a banjo uke, but I was looking for a tenor. Most of what I see are concert.
The Magic Fluke Company has announced what is going to be a new tenor banjo, (my guess is a 'FireFly' model at tenor scale) as per:
December 2016 – Updates from Magic Fluke said:
so you might want to check their web site for more info:
http://www.magicfluke.com/Default.asp
You remember I said a friend bought a luthier built tenor scale banjo uke. It was the Midnight Special and I just found the review that brought that instrument to his attention. It is in the Ukulele Review subforum and I bumped it up to the top for you to see. There is a link to the website in the post.
Bottom line is Tim ordered one we drove about two hours to pick it up when it was ready. Hugh owns a music store in the town is a musican and builds banjos as well as banjo ukes. Great guy that really knows his stuff. My friend Tim is thrilled with it, had it over one year now. I was going to mention Gold Tone.......they are about $410.00. The Midnight Special is $325.00 CDN which works out to about $245.00 USD. Kind of a no brainer..........same price as the "sketchy" Sidekick for a luthier built unit from a guy that make real banjos
Bottom line is Tim ordered one we drove about two hours to pick it up when it was ready. Hugh owns a music store in the town is a musican and builds banjos as well as banjo ukes. Great guy that really knows his stuff. My friend Tim is thrilled with it, had it over one year now. I was going to mention Gold Tone.......they are about $410.00. The Midnight Special is $325.00 CDN which works out to about $245.00 USD. Kind of a no brainer..........same price as the "sketchy" Sidekick for a luthier built unit from a guy that make real banjos
strumsilly
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Ive played a few Deering concert neck ukes. they sound really great, and are a quality builld. They have a big drum . They also are now making a tenor. $400 for the concerts and $500 for the tenors. I don't know why the tenors should be so much more. They are fairly new and am waiting for a tenor on the used market.
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54 views and nobody seems to know.
More info might get you a reply, i.e., a photo or link to product on the maker's web site or other such painful details.
Just a thought.
I have to agree with Booli. If someone makes a short post that doesn't supply enough information for me to know what they're talking about, I usually move on. That makes me someone who viewed the post but didn't respond. For example, a link to whatever a Sidekick is or a description would have been helpful. I just figured you only wanted to hear from people who knew what you were talking about.
SteveZ
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I had one of the original SideKicks and loved it. Sold it recently when I got The Duke which is an upgraded SideKick-style instrument.
Had the Deering concert banjo-uke, but it eventually felt too heavy and awkwark for its intended purposea compared to other banjo-ukes. I really like my Deering tenor banjo, and having a shorter-necked clone instrument was okay for a while but not long-term.
Have never had a stringed instrument which eventually didn't get a custom set-up to get the "butter-like" feel. Just sending an instrument off to a tech and expecting a "custom job" is not the same as testing the feel throughout the set-up process until it feels really good.
Had the Deering concert banjo-uke, but it eventually felt too heavy and awkwark for its intended purposea compared to other banjo-ukes. I really like my Deering tenor banjo, and having a shorter-necked clone instrument was okay for a while but not long-term.
Have never had a stringed instrument which eventually didn't get a custom set-up to get the "butter-like" feel. Just sending an instrument off to a tech and expecting a "custom job" is not the same as testing the feel throughout the set-up process until it feels really good.
As an old computer guy, I read "sidekick" and thought it was about the old computer program, so I ignored the post. Some things need to be a little more clear for us old fogies.
-Kurt
LOL - brings me back - I used to use that program back in my MS-DOS days. Also there was the T-Mobile SideKick that predates modern smartphones and had some games, messaging and internet browsing back in the late-90s...
I loved Traveling Sidekick! I used it with DOS 2.11, back on my ITT Xtra with a 5-1/4" floppy and 20 Mb hard drive. (I even upped the RAM to 640K with an add-in board) I have to laugh, because my old 12" green screen monitor cost more than my most recent i5 desktop computer.
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plunker
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Thank you to everyone gor the effort to help.yes it,was about the banjo lelee. Sorry for anyone who waisted time due to not enough info.
