Hi,
I started playing the uke a couple of months back and fell in love with the instrument. I have a VTAB laminate mahogany concert and I want to upgrade to a higher end tenor.
I'm searching for a warm sounding instrument that has a slight guitar like tone yet still sounds like a ukulele. I'm trying to learn to play jazz and latin with it. I find an over 35mm nut width and a slim neck depth to be plusses.
The ukes that have really caught my interest are Koaloha Opio KTO-10 (both acacia and spruce models) and The Rebel double cheese tenor (both spruce and mango). I'd really like to fit them with a low-G set. As a side note I love the sound of The Rebel Pluto that is a spruce and acacia instrument like the KTO-10-s while The Rebels at my price point are spruce and mahogany.
Does anyone of you have insight to which one to buy. I do like them all, but The Rebels are quite a bit more expensive, so if someone knows if they have some sort of a gamechanger trait compared to the Opios please tell me.
I'm open to other suggestions as well. Thanks!
I started playing the uke a couple of months back and fell in love with the instrument. I have a VTAB laminate mahogany concert and I want to upgrade to a higher end tenor.
I'm searching for a warm sounding instrument that has a slight guitar like tone yet still sounds like a ukulele. I'm trying to learn to play jazz and latin with it. I find an over 35mm nut width and a slim neck depth to be plusses.
The ukes that have really caught my interest are Koaloha Opio KTO-10 (both acacia and spruce models) and The Rebel double cheese tenor (both spruce and mango). I'd really like to fit them with a low-G set. As a side note I love the sound of The Rebel Pluto that is a spruce and acacia instrument like the KTO-10-s while The Rebels at my price point are spruce and mahogany.
Does anyone of you have insight to which one to buy. I do like them all, but The Rebels are quite a bit more expensive, so if someone knows if they have some sort of a gamechanger trait compared to the Opios please tell me.
I'm open to other suggestions as well. Thanks!