KoAloha Ukulele?

tkurita · Jul 11, 2009

I have a KoAloha Concert Ukulele that has an oval shapped sound hole not a "musubi" shaped one. Is this a early model?

koalohapaul · Jul 11, 2009

We only did the oval hole for a couple of months, before switching to the musubi. You have an early model, which happens to be pretty rare. We probably made less than 300 of them.

BrotherUke · Jul 11, 2009

Man, I'd love to see a picture of that.

Raygf · Jul 11, 2009

Yes, pictures please!

Regards,
Ray

BrotherUke · Jul 11, 2009

Stunning! You have a real prize there.

Bratset · Jul 11, 2009

tkurita said:
I have a KoAloha Concert Ukulele that has an oval shapped sound hole not a "musubi" shaped one. Is this a early model?

wow.. your real lucky there!

tkurita · Jul 11, 2009

Picture of koaloha

Here is a picture of my Koaloha thats been in my closet since i bought it in the early 2000s.

ukerazy · Jul 11, 2009

B-e-a-uuutiful

Dino · Jul 11, 2009

tkurita said:
Here is a picture of my Koaloha thats been in my closet since i bought it in the early 2000s.

Are you considering selling since you havent been playing it?

dnewton2 · Jul 11, 2009

Dino said:
Are you considering selling since you havent been playing it?

I thought the same thing. It sure does look nice, bet it sounds sweet too.

Lanark · Jul 11, 2009

Have a look at the neck block.
There is going to be a date stamped on it that will tell you when it was made. (at least month and year) I've got a Feb. & and April of 2000 with round holes, so my guess it's going to be somewhere shortly after that if I remember Paul's timeline correctly from another thread.

And seriously. Start playing it. It's way too nice an instrument to be languishing in a closet.

tkurita · Jul 11, 2009

I have not thought about selling it, although i do play my tenor Pono and Kanilea more often. Who knows if the price was right i might just sell it to buy a new Koaloha tenor. BTW the tone is unreal.

seeso · Jul 12, 2009

Argh! Why don't you play it? I hate you.

koalohapaul · Jul 12, 2009

I don't mean to add to the uke-lust, but I wanted to point out that that ukulele is also 100% Koa. We didn't use the CNC shaped mahogany necks at the time and each neck was hand shaped by my dad, until he made me start doing it.

tkurita · Jul 12, 2009

Thanks for the information koalohapaul, ive been playing this ukulele all day and have established a new love affair with it. I just changed the strings and its sounds "killer".

experimentjon · Jul 12, 2009

Wow, even looks like it's got a one piece koa top, not bookmatched. Pretty special piece right there.

Kaneohe til the end · Jul 12, 2009

experimentjon said:
Wow, even looks like it's got a one piece koa top, not bookmatched. Pretty special piece right there.

my guess is its also a one piece back and one piece sides too.

tkurita · Jul 12, 2009

Yes it does, i never noticed that it has a one piece top, side and bottom. Thanks for all this information on my ukulele, it makes it even more special.

tkurita · Jul 13, 2009

Here are more pictures. Any suggestion on how i can fix tuners, they are very stiff and hard to turn, thus tuning is always off.

sukie · Jul 13, 2009

Are the tuners just too tight? Have you played around with the screws at all? Friction tuners are really touchy.

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