My wife bought me a Mele Soprano for christmas, unfortunatly FEDEX destroyed it, came all cracked up, hard case broken in three spots. I would have exchanged it anyway since I prefer concert's and tenor's. I called mele, told them what happened and they were on top of it. I upgraded to a tenor size koa top uke, and it is beautiful, just gorgeous look and sound, It's strung low G with two wound strings and it is very warm in sound. The build quality seems very good, looking inside the body you can see a huge difference from my production ukes (Kala, Ohana). I am very happy with it and also with the customer service Mele provided, when I couldn't decide between two tenors, they had a guy in the store play them both for me while I was on the phone. Great customer service every step of the way for me. There are a couple clips on youtube of some Mele's. Check them out.
Sark