armchair_spaceman
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New KoAloha Tenor arrived today - happy as a pup with two tails!
I jagged one of the "factory specials" that appeared at TUS a couple of weeks ago...I was watching and waiting for tenors to come back into stock, when the specials came on I just had to have one. I have to say those Okami folk must be very, very fussy - my uke allegedly has some flaw in the finish somewhere on the back but the thing looks pretty well mint to me.
Tone and projection and dynamics are everything I had hoped for, setup from TUS is spot-on for my hands and it plays beautifully all the way up the neck (so eeeeezy to play). And I really like the grain pattern in the Koa - that's a bonus. If it's this good straight out of the box...how good is it going to be when it settles in a bit? I think I might prefer it in standard tuning over the stock Low-G, maybe the D'Addario T2s I have in the strings box, in due course. That's not a gripe BYW, I ordered it stock...would have tried Low-G on it anyway at some stage if it didn't come that way.
Thanks to KoAloha, thanks to Joel and the crew at TUS, I couldn't be happier.
And only four days for it get from Hawaii to my door in suburban Melbourne (Australia)..I wasn't really expecting it for another week
I jagged one of the "factory specials" that appeared at TUS a couple of weeks ago...I was watching and waiting for tenors to come back into stock, when the specials came on I just had to have one. I have to say those Okami folk must be very, very fussy - my uke allegedly has some flaw in the finish somewhere on the back but the thing looks pretty well mint to me.
Tone and projection and dynamics are everything I had hoped for, setup from TUS is spot-on for my hands and it plays beautifully all the way up the neck (so eeeeezy to play). And I really like the grain pattern in the Koa - that's a bonus. If it's this good straight out of the box...how good is it going to be when it settles in a bit? I think I might prefer it in standard tuning over the stock Low-G, maybe the D'Addario T2s I have in the strings box, in due course. That's not a gripe BYW, I ordered it stock...would have tried Low-G on it anyway at some stage if it didn't come that way.
Thanks to KoAloha, thanks to Joel and the crew at TUS, I couldn't be happier.
And only four days for it get from Hawaii to my door in suburban Melbourne (Australia)..I wasn't really expecting it for another week
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