gastlygem
Member
Hello Forum,
First a little bit about my self: Native Chinese, 30, came to work at Shanghai last August, one year ukeling and becoming enthusiastic.
You know how it's like if you're a uke fan but you're stranded in mainland China. Cheap ukes are easy to find, but if you want to upgrade your instrument then you're out of luck.
Now I own two ukes, one is a $50 Mahalo Soprano, which is not bad actually, the other is a $100 Aroha Tenor, which is barely playable -- The strings are hard on fingers, and the frets are positioned in an inconvenient way. I haven't learned these until yesterday though, that's when I came by a guitar shop, astonishingly, I found half of the instruments on the wall are ukuleles, everything from standard to exotic cigarbox, pear-shaped, and electric ukes. I am dazzled!
A quick look through reveals that they sell mainly two brands, the cheap China made Lankais, and the $200 to $300 Aosdin ukes. Aosdin? Never heard of it, but the ukes operates and sounds definitely better than my own. The shop owner says it's a Taiwan manufacturer who originally makes guitars. Then I looked through the intertube but couldn't even find its homepage, and it turns out that it's only sold in mainland China. To buy or not to buy, that is the question.
I've been following Aldrine's video tutorials for some time and here's my first post in the forum. Maybe I can ask some of you to bring me an uke if you come to China? Haha, I'm only joking, but, really...
Cheers,
Joel (Yes, every literate Chinese has an English name)
First a little bit about my self: Native Chinese, 30, came to work at Shanghai last August, one year ukeling and becoming enthusiastic.
You know how it's like if you're a uke fan but you're stranded in mainland China. Cheap ukes are easy to find, but if you want to upgrade your instrument then you're out of luck.
Now I own two ukes, one is a $50 Mahalo Soprano, which is not bad actually, the other is a $100 Aroha Tenor, which is barely playable -- The strings are hard on fingers, and the frets are positioned in an inconvenient way. I haven't learned these until yesterday though, that's when I came by a guitar shop, astonishingly, I found half of the instruments on the wall are ukuleles, everything from standard to exotic cigarbox, pear-shaped, and electric ukes. I am dazzled!
A quick look through reveals that they sell mainly two brands, the cheap China made Lankais, and the $200 to $300 Aosdin ukes. Aosdin? Never heard of it, but the ukes operates and sounds definitely better than my own. The shop owner says it's a Taiwan manufacturer who originally makes guitars. Then I looked through the intertube but couldn't even find its homepage, and it turns out that it's only sold in mainland China. To buy or not to buy, that is the question.
I've been following Aldrine's video tutorials for some time and here's my first post in the forum. Maybe I can ask some of you to bring me an uke if you come to China? Haha, I'm only joking, but, really...
Cheers,
Joel (Yes, every literate Chinese has an English name
)
