Jerryc41
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Just curious how you are getting along with the koalana tenor?
Just fine. It still looks and sounds great. I'm playing it today at our jam.
Just curious how you are getting along with the koalana tenor?
Terry Carter just put out a video comparing Koalana with Koaloha. He plays the same songs on both with the same microphone so you can hear the sound quality differences. Like with most of his videos, he sometimes rambles and sounds like a used car salesman, but the sound samples are good.
I still think it's strange the Koaloha does not publish anything about the Koalana ukes on their website, where they list all the various series of Koaloha and Opio ukes. The Koalana ukes were listed on the website for a while last year, then vanished. Makes we wonder if they are already planning to drop that line.
I asked them that exact question when they disappeared off the website, and was told that they were having difficulty with sourcing/shipping and they were not being discontinued. But maybe things have changed.
I asked them that exact question when they disappeared off the website, and was told that they were having difficulty with sourcing/shipping and they were not being discontinued. But maybe things have changed.
The shipping and customs are very very slow. My Koalana was shipped from Honolulu on Dec 16 and arrived today January 20.
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The shipping and customs are very very slow. My Koalana was shipped from Honolulu on Dec 16 and arrived today January 20.
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Is that not the way it's supposed to be shipped?
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All my ukes have been shipped inside a second outer box.
Mine too, and with a lot of padding between the 2 boxes. The thin factory box is more of a dust cover than a shipping container.
Does the factory ship with a single thin box like that?
Is that not the way it's supposed to be shipped?
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I guess I was lucky that it arrived unharmed. So far I have bought four very high end guitars and four ukuleles online and none of them was double boxed. One of the ukes was sent from Japan just in hard case and some wrap without a box. One of the guitars was professionally packed and arrived like a thick cocoon in many layers of bubble wrap.
I hate it when people tape the bubble wrap? Where is it going to go?
I guess I was lucky that it arrived unharmed. So far I have bought four very high end guitars and four ukuleles online and none of them was double boxed. One of the ukes was sent from Japan just in hard case and some wrap without a box. One of the guitars was professionally packed and arrived like a thick cocoon in many layers of bubble wrap.
Do you mean where will the packaging go? It was also wrapped with many layers of tape and was as hard as a cocoon. So I just sliced it open to pull the guitar case out. I thought it can be reused to protect a guitar and it is likely sitting inside one of the guitar boxes in the basement. I don't throw out potentially useful packaging material, try to minimize waste.