Raymond
Member
Greetings. I've been lurking around these parts and learning what I can. I've never played a ukulele but got the idea recently to try it after listing to Joe Purdy's Julie Blue CD a few hundred times. Knowing what I know about guitars, I was hoping to avoid a mass produced laminate but the prices for solid wood, as you all know, can be surprising. Then I came upon this on ebay (it arrived today):
It's a Tangi tenor ukulele. All solid flamed koa, 7 years old with hardly a mark on it. It has a few surface cracks that I'm not sure go through the wood. I'll have that checked out tomorrow when I buy some new strings. I'm sure you all know about Tangi and his circumstances. His ukuleles seem to get high marks but they're not discussed as much as some others. I think I did pretty good for a hand made in Honolulu uke but I'd like some input. Is there anything anyone can tell me about this instrument? Was $100 a great price, a reasonable price or did I get robbed?
It's a Tangi tenor ukulele. All solid flamed koa, 7 years old with hardly a mark on it. It has a few surface cracks that I'm not sure go through the wood. I'll have that checked out tomorrow when I buy some new strings. I'm sure you all know about Tangi and his circumstances. His ukuleles seem to get high marks but they're not discussed as much as some others. I think I did pretty good for a hand made in Honolulu uke but I'd like some input. Is there anything anyone can tell me about this instrument? Was $100 a great price, a reasonable price or did I get robbed?