Talk me into or out of a Mainland Mahogany Tenor
First off I would like to introduce myself to the forum. After 20+ years of guitar and due to way to much extra time due to covid quarantine I bought myself an Ohana CK-10 on a whim from Mim. I had no idea what I was missing. I picked up the new tuning pretty fast and due to my experience with music theory and fretted instruments have been accelerating quickly. I started by learning You Belong To Me(not Tonight You Belong To Me, the other one with Pyramids etc) got into some other golden oldies. I have already written a pretty good song of my own and want to add a decent uke with a pickup for when we can start doing gigs and open mics and things when the world starts opening up more.
For the price the Mainland Mahogany Tenor with pickup seems hard to beat especially after reading all of the great reviews for Ukes in this price range here on this site. I’m definitely wanting a Tenor because I am quite tall and have rather long fingers and think a little longer scale length would go a long way for comfort.
So a couple questions for you more experienced uke folks. Are there other instruments of similar quality and value in the $300-400 range? Based off my entry level Ohana I would think some of their mid level offerings would be ok?
Is it worth it to buy a uke with a pickup preinstalled, or better to buy a higher quality uke and maybe put a pickup in after the fact?
I really had no idea how much fun a ukulele could be, I plan on giving the ck-10 to my daughter as she has been showing interest and actually wants me to teach her to play an instrument for once.
Looking forward to your opinions.
First off I would like to introduce myself to the forum. After 20+ years of guitar and due to way to much extra time due to covid quarantine I bought myself an Ohana CK-10 on a whim from Mim. I had no idea what I was missing. I picked up the new tuning pretty fast and due to my experience with music theory and fretted instruments have been accelerating quickly. I started by learning You Belong To Me(not Tonight You Belong To Me, the other one with Pyramids etc) got into some other golden oldies. I have already written a pretty good song of my own and want to add a decent uke with a pickup for when we can start doing gigs and open mics and things when the world starts opening up more.
For the price the Mainland Mahogany Tenor with pickup seems hard to beat especially after reading all of the great reviews for Ukes in this price range here on this site. I’m definitely wanting a Tenor because I am quite tall and have rather long fingers and think a little longer scale length would go a long way for comfort.
So a couple questions for you more experienced uke folks. Are there other instruments of similar quality and value in the $300-400 range? Based off my entry level Ohana I would think some of their mid level offerings would be ok?
Is it worth it to buy a uke with a pickup preinstalled, or better to buy a higher quality uke and maybe put a pickup in after the fact?
I really had no idea how much fun a ukulele could be, I plan on giving the ck-10 to my daughter as she has been showing interest and actually wants me to teach her to play an instrument for once.
Looking forward to your opinions.
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