The guitar giant's latest crack at the ukulele market..
https://www.gotaukulele.com/2020/07/fender-fullerton-tele-ukulele-review.html
https://www.gotaukulele.com/2020/07/fender-fullerton-tele-ukulele-review.html
Agreed on all comments. As a Long time STRAT and Tele electric player, do we really need a Uke that shape that doesn’t live up to the billing. That said, I do like the Jazzmaster shape. Imagine if they did this with thinner build like a nice solid spruce top, ditched in preamp for a simple under saddle piezo pick up and used their expertise to make a nice light, balanced and acoustically GOOD sounding ukulele. Put on some Grover open back (lite tuners) for better precision tuning and balance. They could sell some at a much higher price if they sounded good. Those stamped metal in line tuners, cheap version are notorious for backlash.
Fender’s Alternate Reality Tenor Telecaster is sort of a big, steel-strung baritone uke, given its DGBE default tuning. I’d love to see your take on it; it’s certainly truer to the Tele tradition.
I’ve been trying to find one of these....I was told they are limited editions. My question is can these be tuned G C E A, I was told it was possible....I would prefer a solid body such as this to many of the acoustic electric I have been seeing.
I’ve been trying to find one of these....I was told they are limited editions. My question is can these be tuned G C E A, I was told it was possible....I would prefer a solid body such as this to many of the acoustic electric I have been seeing.
I ordered one from Elderly when they were announced in early 2019 and didn’t get it until February of this year. I found the light strings that came on the Tenor Tele were floppy when tuned to DGBE, so I tuned it to FBbDG and found it played much better. Believe it or not, I haven’t tried GCEA, but I’m sure it would work.
D'Addario and others have string tension calculators for people that want to do off-book things . . .
Thanks for the review!
I wondering how the new Fender Fullerton Ukulele compares with the old Fender Ukulele '52 4-String Electro Acoustic Ukulele.