Ukecaster
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You may have seen this before, but I just ran across this on YouTube. In your opinion, which would you rank the top 3 of this particular collection?
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Love the playing and am so envious of such skill - a great encouragement to practice more. Nice piece of music too: easy on the ears; a bit of an ear worm and a nice mix of strumming and picking.
It's an interesting video though I didn't find it clear in terms of which Ukes were on it - readers with more experience will, no doubt, be able to pick out the headstock logos with ease. I watched a couple of it times with a pen and pad to hand to note make (where possible as not all are clear to me) and change times. They are:
00.00 AUA? ; 0.47 Aria ; 1.32 ? ; 2.14 Martin ? ; 3.00 Kiwaya ? ; 4.30 Bruko No6
At the time of writing I feel certain only of the Aria and the Bruko, the later probably being the least expensive of the group and not the best sounding one to my ears. To be fair the Bruko is up against a tough field of much more expensive instruments, is great value and I'd still like one.
......It's an interesting video though I didn't find it clear in terms of which Ukes were on it - readers with more experience will, no doubt, be able to pick out the headstock logos with ease.
4 different types of strings! Based on sound preference rather than uke (as they're strung with 4 different string sets) I liked the Kiwaya onwards.....and I think it offered more range. The playing differed too so, I guess it's just a bit of fun really. The end uke was quite balanced too, but again I think it was down to less a punchy string set. So, for me the Kiwaya - Worth Browns and the end uke (Bruko maybe).
Bruko are German, their sopranos can be had for £124 in the UK:
https://www.omegamusic.co.uk/products/bruko-no-5-all-solid-mahogany-soprano-ukulele-full-body
Or around EUR130 directly from their website. The Favilla and Martin I think were vintage (maybe the Aria too?) so auction only. The Kala appears to no longer be available and a Kiwaya KTS-4 is £580 in the UK:
http://www.southernukulelestore.co....kxSWc-RvisKis_PmN9hp20YhGAHRVB7OvoBoCzyfw_wcB
Hope this helps!
To me it adds context which I hope is useful to our American Cousins too. In terms of 'bang per buck' the Bruko must surely be the winner by a wide margin but after that the judgement is less clear, and of course there's more to instrument selection than just relative value. If someone in the US is interested then it's worth checking whether Omega would export direct to you and whether the could refund the tax element of the price.