The Pashmeister
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This is my first ukulele review, so please bear with me.
A brief story for you:-
My son works as an English teacher in Hangzhou, China, so my wife and I decided to visit him for a 3 week holiday.
I did a bit of internet research and found a shop that specialised in ukuleles. After a bit more research I decided that when we were in China I would visit the shop and by a Brightsun 26" tenor ukulele. The specification looked great and the price was more than reasonable.
When we got to the shop they only had the concert version in stock, so I decided to buy the Sinye YA T26.
The shop is called 4uke (website 4uke.com). They supply a variety of domestic and foreign brands of ukulele - some of which are unfamiliar, some are well known. Check out the website. The lady in the shop spoke very good English. There was a workbench set up in the shop for setting up the ukes too. All Good. Now onto the review.
The Sinye YA T26 is an all solid wood tenor ukulele. The details on the website are a bit sketchy and badly translated, but as far as I can make out, the details are as follows:-
Front, back and sides are all solid mahogany with rosewood edge binding and comfort edge. The fretboard is also rosewood, bound and very smooth.
The soundhole is decorated with rosewood and abalone.
There are no front facing fretmarkers, but there are markers on the side. The fretboard is decoated with an inlaid abalone clover leaf - nice!
There is also a strap button shaped like a clover leaf. The headstock is a slotted style with rear facing tuners (gold plated I believe - why?).
The shape of the headstock is unusual too - not the usual crown shape.
The back is slightly arched, the side pieces are joined at the heel with a darker piece of rosewood. The strings fitted are Worth Browns.
This was supplied in a beautiful hard leatherette case that fastens with a zip and 2 straps. They also supplied a spare set of Worth Brown strings, a Big Island Ukulele neck strap, a tuner, a kazoo, a polishing cloth and a finger shaker.
total price paid 1800 RMB (approx £228).
As Baz Maz would say "All that's fine, but if it sounds awful..."
It sounds great, plenty of volume and resonance. If I get chance I'll upload a sound sample, but for the moment here's some photos:-
A brief story for you:-
My son works as an English teacher in Hangzhou, China, so my wife and I decided to visit him for a 3 week holiday.
I did a bit of internet research and found a shop that specialised in ukuleles. After a bit more research I decided that when we were in China I would visit the shop and by a Brightsun 26" tenor ukulele. The specification looked great and the price was more than reasonable.
When we got to the shop they only had the concert version in stock, so I decided to buy the Sinye YA T26.
The shop is called 4uke (website 4uke.com). They supply a variety of domestic and foreign brands of ukulele - some of which are unfamiliar, some are well known. Check out the website. The lady in the shop spoke very good English. There was a workbench set up in the shop for setting up the ukes too. All Good. Now onto the review.
The Sinye YA T26 is an all solid wood tenor ukulele. The details on the website are a bit sketchy and badly translated, but as far as I can make out, the details are as follows:-
Front, back and sides are all solid mahogany with rosewood edge binding and comfort edge. The fretboard is also rosewood, bound and very smooth.
The soundhole is decorated with rosewood and abalone.
There are no front facing fretmarkers, but there are markers on the side. The fretboard is decoated with an inlaid abalone clover leaf - nice!
There is also a strap button shaped like a clover leaf. The headstock is a slotted style with rear facing tuners (gold plated I believe - why?).
The shape of the headstock is unusual too - not the usual crown shape.
The back is slightly arched, the side pieces are joined at the heel with a darker piece of rosewood. The strings fitted are Worth Browns.
This was supplied in a beautiful hard leatherette case that fastens with a zip and 2 straps. They also supplied a spare set of Worth Brown strings, a Big Island Ukulele neck strap, a tuner, a kazoo, a polishing cloth and a finger shaker.
total price paid 1800 RMB (approx £228).
As Baz Maz would say "All that's fine, but if it sounds awful..."
It sounds great, plenty of volume and resonance. If I get chance I'll upload a sound sample, but for the moment here's some photos:-
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