Okay, so I've said many times that I don't need any more ukuleles, since I got the Sceptre.
And it is true - I don't need any more ukuleles....
But there was one in the Marketplace forum for so long (over a month!) that looked nice - hand made , a low-g soprano... And the price was right.
So yeah, I don't need any more ukuleles, but I got a nice used one anyway. Thanks Mitch.
The uke doesn't have a case (I've got to take care of that, soon) but came well packaged in a wooden box.
The folks at the mail drop didn't look like they shook it, but that's okay, since it wasn't going anywhere - this box really was made for the instrument.
I took the four screws out and lifted the lid to find.... newspaper!
In every nook and cranny. No wonder nothing moved!
When I'd finally gotten the paper off, I found this:
Waverly Street Soprano #38 - a Low-G teardrop shaped , hand-made soprano uke, at an obscenely low price. (Thanks again, Mitch!)
A couple of dings in the finish, and it does need to be humidified (especially after a long weekend in the USPS pipeline), but this tells me that the instrument has been played, not parked on a shelf somewhere and merely looked at.
I'm letting it warm up for now - I'm surprised at how tiny it is, and how full the sound is. I've never played a low-G uke before, and this soprano has tons of bottom to the sound! Mitch recently changed the strings from Aquila to Worth Clear (Again: Thanks, Mitch!!), and they are still stretching.
I need to find a hard case for it - it sort of fits in the Ohana case, but the body is about 3/4" more shallow than the Vita Uke, so lots of padding would be required. But I also think that anything I can fit one of the banjo ukes in will fit the Waverly Street.
I'll have some more photos tomorrow, I hope.
And it is true - I don't need any more ukuleles....
But there was one in the Marketplace forum for so long (over a month!) that looked nice - hand made , a low-g soprano... And the price was right.
So yeah, I don't need any more ukuleles, but I got a nice used one anyway. Thanks Mitch.
The uke doesn't have a case (I've got to take care of that, soon) but came well packaged in a wooden box.
The folks at the mail drop didn't look like they shook it, but that's okay, since it wasn't going anywhere - this box really was made for the instrument.
I took the four screws out and lifted the lid to find.... newspaper!
In every nook and cranny. No wonder nothing moved!
When I'd finally gotten the paper off, I found this:
Waverly Street Soprano #38 - a Low-G teardrop shaped , hand-made soprano uke, at an obscenely low price. (Thanks again, Mitch!)
A couple of dings in the finish, and it does need to be humidified (especially after a long weekend in the USPS pipeline), but this tells me that the instrument has been played, not parked on a shelf somewhere and merely looked at.
I'm letting it warm up for now - I'm surprised at how tiny it is, and how full the sound is. I've never played a low-G uke before, and this soprano has tons of bottom to the sound! Mitch recently changed the strings from Aquila to Worth Clear (Again: Thanks, Mitch!!), and they are still stretching.
I need to find a hard case for it - it sort of fits in the Ohana case, but the body is about 3/4" more shallow than the Vita Uke, so lots of padding would be required. But I also think that anything I can fit one of the banjo ukes in will fit the Waverly Street.
I'll have some more photos tomorrow, I hope.
-Kurt