A new model from tinguitar.com
The background to this design is that last year I was asked by Colin Shearing, if I could come up with a ukulele that would fit within the stringent size limits for cabin baggage on UK "no frills" airlines.
The brief was:
Full soprano scale
Traditional hourglass body shape, IE a proper acoustic ukulele, not a semi-solid etc.
Comfortably less than 55cm (21.7") long overall. (55cm is the size limit when flying on Ryanair.)
This is the result: at 47.5cm (18.7") it is well within the size limit with little or no compromise to the volume or tone.
This first production version has a cherry body with a Brazilian cedar neck, rosewood fretboard and rosewood violin peg tuners.
Phil Doleman took the prototype version on the Re-Entrants' recent Germany tour, where it served as his main stage uke. He was kind enough to record this review of it. Thanks Phil.
The background to this design is that last year I was asked by Colin Shearing, if I could come up with a ukulele that would fit within the stringent size limits for cabin baggage on UK "no frills" airlines.
The brief was:
Full soprano scale
Traditional hourglass body shape, IE a proper acoustic ukulele, not a semi-solid etc.
Comfortably less than 55cm (21.7") long overall. (55cm is the size limit when flying on Ryanair.)
This is the result: at 47.5cm (18.7") it is well within the size limit with little or no compromise to the volume or tone.
This first production version has a cherry body with a Brazilian cedar neck, rosewood fretboard and rosewood violin peg tuners.
Phil Doleman took the prototype version on the Re-Entrants' recent Germany tour, where it served as his main stage uke. He was kind enough to record this review of it. Thanks Phil.
That's a really good idea to have one that fits easily into carry-on luggage as yes they can be pretty darn uncompromising when it comes to your bag size on European flights, especially on those "budget" airlines! 
