Icelander53
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Mine I mean. I was in a mood and waxing poetic and I made a slightly disparaging remark about my Pono's which I want to make right. I was determined not to make the same mistakes with fawning over my latest acquisition and making assumption that prove only to show me how flawed my thinking can be at times.
So I have the KoAloha Opio Tenor. (in the mahogany family) Of my Pono's in a play off the clear winner was my Pono ET-PC Tenor.(cedar/ebony) Both strung low G. The Opio sports Fremont strings. The Pono is sporting SouthCoast strings. Both came from and were set up by HMS.
I have put them to the test against each other with a clear bias on my part initially to the brand new Opio. I looked at and listened to them from the perspective of how I play and my skills and goals. In the end and it's never the end I'm enjoying playing the Pono more at this moment. When it comes to build quality I had to give them both a 10 on a scale of 1-10.
The Pono is for me easier to play and it's sound lends itself to the strum and sing that I do at this point. It has a very rich and mellow sound that is very guitar like. It blows all my other ukes away soundwise.(not including the Opio) The Opio is more articulate and accurate to my ear with wonderful bell like tones. And it's loud and as I move into fingerstyle for the first time it excels at that from the little I can do.
I'm not really doing this as a through comprehensive comparison but instead to reaffirm to you all my love of Pono's as a uke of choice. I really wouldn't want to be without either. I could let go of all my others without much pain but not those two. I'm done now.
So I have the KoAloha Opio Tenor. (in the mahogany family) Of my Pono's in a play off the clear winner was my Pono ET-PC Tenor.(cedar/ebony) Both strung low G. The Opio sports Fremont strings. The Pono is sporting SouthCoast strings. Both came from and were set up by HMS.
I have put them to the test against each other with a clear bias on my part initially to the brand new Opio. I looked at and listened to them from the perspective of how I play and my skills and goals. In the end and it's never the end I'm enjoying playing the Pono more at this moment. When it comes to build quality I had to give them both a 10 on a scale of 1-10.
The Pono is for me easier to play and it's sound lends itself to the strum and sing that I do at this point. It has a very rich and mellow sound that is very guitar like. It blows all my other ukes away soundwise.(not including the Opio) The Opio is more articulate and accurate to my ear with wonderful bell like tones. And it's loud and as I move into fingerstyle for the first time it excels at that from the little I can do.
I'm not really doing this as a through comprehensive comparison but instead to reaffirm to you all my love of Pono's as a uke of choice. I really wouldn't want to be without either. I could let go of all my others without much pain but not those two. I'm done now.
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