Swamp Yankee
Well-known member
I dropped my wife off at the naturopathic doctor yesterday and peeked into the nearest GC while she was at her appointment.
I saw a Cordoba 24T hanging and, of course, I had to try it out.
Really nice uke! Big voice with plenty of warmth coming from a moderately sized and feather light tenor that's really good looking as well. Gorgeous spalted maple laminated back and sides, padauk binding back sides with back and white purfling tastefully added - padauk binding on the neck, solid cedar top. Very nice carve on the neck...very playable. The back is arched in both dimensions and it tucks very nicely into playing position under my right arm.
And the set up right out of the box was so nice and low...perfect for me. Needless to say, after picking up my wife - I dragged her back so's I could try to persuade her that I needed yet another uke....she went right along with it and let me get it.
I suppose it helped that she'd just shelled out a few hundred $$$ on herbal preparations in the form of various tinctures and essential whatchamacallits, and it also helped that the uke itself was less than $200 new..
So now I have a sweet little lam back tenor that I like a whole lot more than the solid mahogany Kanile'a Islander tenor I picked up earlier this month off of Ebay....
I saw a Cordoba 24T hanging and, of course, I had to try it out.
Really nice uke! Big voice with plenty of warmth coming from a moderately sized and feather light tenor that's really good looking as well. Gorgeous spalted maple laminated back and sides, padauk binding back sides with back and white purfling tastefully added - padauk binding on the neck, solid cedar top. Very nice carve on the neck...very playable. The back is arched in both dimensions and it tucks very nicely into playing position under my right arm.
And the set up right out of the box was so nice and low...perfect for me. Needless to say, after picking up my wife - I dragged her back so's I could try to persuade her that I needed yet another uke....she went right along with it and let me get it.
I suppose it helped that she'd just shelled out a few hundred $$$ on herbal preparations in the form of various tinctures and essential whatchamacallits, and it also helped that the uke itself was less than $200 new..
So now I have a sweet little lam back tenor that I like a whole lot more than the solid mahogany Kanile'a Islander tenor I picked up earlier this month off of Ebay....