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I just had a strange experience, and thought I would share it.
2 days ago, I wandered into my local music shop.
Always dangerous, I cant help myself and usually spend more money than I can afford
Anyway, I played, and quite liked a new Lanikai Tenor, it was 149 australian dollars, came in a cardboard box (no case), but I dont have a tenor and I ended up haggling the price down to 130 bucks and I bought it on a whim and decided to give it to my wife as a present as she is a new convert to ukes (she's a painist and sax player).
Well I got it home, and she played it and liked it at first, but after a couple of hours I could tell she wasn't that happy with it. She said it just didnt feel right and she really preferred my concert sized ukes.
But also it had a really weird problem, the second string, at the 12th fret, was half a note out in the intonation, all the other strings were ok so the scale length was right and the frets ok, so why would one string by that badly out at just one fret ????
Didn't make any sense, anyway, the next day (yesterday) I took it back to the shop, they put a tuner on it and sure enough, it was out just like I said, they were just as bamboozled as I was, didn't make any sense.
well they did the right thing and offered my a refund or an exchange, and as the original intention was to get missus a present I decided to get her a new concert uke of some sort.
I played some more Lanikai's, and they didnt sound that good, Then I eventually settled on a Tanglewood TU3 Concert (Mahogany) sounded great, came with Aquilas and a fantastic hard case.
Best of all, even though it was retailing at 179 dollars they did me a straight swap for the Lanikai that I only paid 130 for.
And..... It is a really really nice instrument, surprisingly good for the cost. Sweet sound, really bright but mellow and rich too, can't really fault it, best of all the wife loves it.
So I was wondering if anyone else here has a Tanglewood or knows much about them, It's a UK company but the ukes are made in china so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it actually is.
Anyway, thats now 5 ukes in the house, and I still dont have a Tenor or a barritone so it looks like I am destined to get at least 2 more before this madness stops. ( I am a guitar player and only got into ukes a few months ago, but i'm hooked, it's worse than heroin lol, no one told me that ukes were so addictive).
Anyway it's great to be here, it seems like a fantastic forum.
2 days ago, I wandered into my local music shop.
Always dangerous, I cant help myself and usually spend more money than I can afford
Anyway, I played, and quite liked a new Lanikai Tenor, it was 149 australian dollars, came in a cardboard box (no case), but I dont have a tenor and I ended up haggling the price down to 130 bucks and I bought it on a whim and decided to give it to my wife as a present as she is a new convert to ukes (she's a painist and sax player).
Well I got it home, and she played it and liked it at first, but after a couple of hours I could tell she wasn't that happy with it. She said it just didnt feel right and she really preferred my concert sized ukes.
But also it had a really weird problem, the second string, at the 12th fret, was half a note out in the intonation, all the other strings were ok so the scale length was right and the frets ok, so why would one string by that badly out at just one fret ????
Didn't make any sense, anyway, the next day (yesterday) I took it back to the shop, they put a tuner on it and sure enough, it was out just like I said, they were just as bamboozled as I was, didn't make any sense.
well they did the right thing and offered my a refund or an exchange, and as the original intention was to get missus a present I decided to get her a new concert uke of some sort.
I played some more Lanikai's, and they didnt sound that good, Then I eventually settled on a Tanglewood TU3 Concert (Mahogany) sounded great, came with Aquilas and a fantastic hard case.
Best of all, even though it was retailing at 179 dollars they did me a straight swap for the Lanikai that I only paid 130 for.
And..... It is a really really nice instrument, surprisingly good for the cost. Sweet sound, really bright but mellow and rich too, can't really fault it, best of all the wife loves it.
So I was wondering if anyone else here has a Tanglewood or knows much about them, It's a UK company but the ukes are made in china so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it actually is.
Anyway, thats now 5 ukes in the house, and I still dont have a Tenor or a barritone so it looks like I am destined to get at least 2 more before this madness stops. ( I am a guitar player and only got into ukes a few months ago, but i'm hooked, it's worse than heroin lol, no one told me that ukes were so addictive).
Anyway it's great to be here, it seems like a fantastic forum.