PedalFreak
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Just had a lady bring in a very old ukulele, from looking at photos of other ukes it looks to be a Dias or Santo soprano Style3 or 4. Beautiful Koa! Rope binding, rope center stripe on fretboard. Koa neck/fretboard, koa friction pegs.
The bad: All of the rope binding on the back was gone. Bridge needs to be reset, at some point it came off and someone reglued it (not bad, but could be better). Couple of the friction pegs are busted pretty good.
The worst part: The lady is a kindergarten teacher, she says she "bangs" on it everyday, and lets the kids play with it :wallbash:
I restrung it, took some photos (I'll post them once I can get them on my computer), and played it a bit. A lot of sound out of such a little instrument! Extremely light.
And for those of you wondering, YES I offered her cash plus a new ukulele of her choice off of our wall of ukuleles, she had 30 to choose from. She is going to talk to her husband and get back to me.
She got it years ago from a 90 year old man she knew. It was really cool. If she does sell it to me, I'll probably contact DaSilva and see if he can restore it for me
The bad: All of the rope binding on the back was gone. Bridge needs to be reset, at some point it came off and someone reglued it (not bad, but could be better). Couple of the friction pegs are busted pretty good.
The worst part: The lady is a kindergarten teacher, she says she "bangs" on it everyday, and lets the kids play with it :wallbash:
I restrung it, took some photos (I'll post them once I can get them on my computer), and played it a bit. A lot of sound out of such a little instrument! Extremely light.
And for those of you wondering, YES I offered her cash plus a new ukulele of her choice off of our wall of ukuleles, she had 30 to choose from. She is going to talk to her husband and get back to me.
She got it years ago from a 90 year old man she knew. It was really cool. If she does sell it to me, I'll probably contact DaSilva and see if he can restore it for me