haolejohn
Well-known member
So we (SEUkers West chapter) had our 2nd bi-weekly meet-up tonight at the Hiram Starbucks (maybe the greatest baristas that starbucks has) and UkeRepublic obviously brought some of his goods. After passing our ukes around I decided to spend the night playing an ohana zebrawood soprano. I let one of my students, who showed up, play my wife's koaloha long neck soprano and I picked and s trummed that zebra. I know a lot of us are interested in these zebrawood ukes because they are absolutely beautiful but the sound has a reputation of being suspect. After spending about an hour with this uke I noticed two things. First the looks are stunning. I think zebrawood might be prettier than koa. Second is that if you were wondering what the sound is like I am going to attempt to tell you. To my untrained and sometimes tone deaf ears, i think that the zebrawood is similiar to koa but it is brighter. I'm not sure if that makes sense but that is the best i can do. So...If you like bright sounding ukes, you might want to give these babies a try.
BTW-If you can teach a kid to play an ukulele. It will make you smile.
BTW-If you can teach a kid to play an ukulele. It will make you smile.