Purchased new April 2019. Like new condition. Includes Misi pick up installed by Bonanza and hard case.
Currently wearing low G Aquila Reds.
Love the sound of the cherry wood but I mostly play baritone now and this is my last and favorite concert ukulele.
I play one of Daniel Ward's meditations first thing every morning when I pick up a ukulele. Played multiple times over, I think of it as a sort of walking meditation. Also a good warm up and can be used with various picking patterns so your picking gets better. Ward had a book of meditations...
Martin made great baritones. I wonder why they stopped. Even more interesting to me, with the rise in baritone popularity, is why they don't make one now?
The fact that you had a problem with one Fremont Blackline A string does not mean Fremonts have an issue. I've been using them on multiple ukuleles for years without a single string break or any other problem. It could have been a rare faulty string but equally likely a nut slot issue or user...
I bought a Fireball Baritone a year ago. I don't know if it's the mango but I love the sound and it's become one of my favorite ukuleles.
No quality issues and no complaints.
Another approach. Why not play your baritone just like you play your soprano? Unless you're needing to match the key it works just fine and over time you can't help but learn that a C chord is a G chord etc.....
I'm not a fan of this particular YouTube channel which seems to champion buying, collecting and selling inexpensive Amazon ukuleles. That saying about knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing keeps jumping to mind.
My big surprise is the amount of animis expressed for the sweet...
I like the small D'Addario clip on tuners. I have a Peterson Strobe as well but don't use it as often.
I'm grateful someone pointed me to the free Tuner Ninja. I think this online tuner is a real help to beginners or anyone who might sometimes need to know if they're in the right octave. Clip...
Pono has been slandered this way for a long time. I agree that this is an individual preference. I own ukuleles with wider and narrower, thicker and thinner necks and to me it makes no difference is playability.
I've tried the Reds and I envy those who love them.
I hate everything about them but the sound which is hard to appreciate when I can't get these strings, except the wound G, on my Bonanza concert in tune*.
*String reads flat. Tighten string, still flat. Tighten string, still flat, tighten...
Thanks.
Looks like his three Christmas books are all chord versions of songs.
Fairytale seems such a natural for fingerstyle because it requires two singers to do a chord version as written.
I just watched a YouTube video of Al Wood doing a lovely chord melody arrangement of Fairytale but couldn't find it available for download.
Anyone got a link?