Acoutic Guitar Magazine conducts polls to come up with its "Players Choice Awards" for various types of guitars and other stringed instruments. It has announced on its website its Players Choice Awards for ukuleles.
Gold: Martin
Silver: Lanakai
Bronze: Cordoba
http://www.acousticguitar.com/News-Features/2014-Player-s-Choice-Awards/Player-s-Choice-Awards-Banjos-Mandolins-and-Ukuleles
All readers polls are necessarily self-selective, and the results often say as much about those who choose to particuipate in polls, the readership of the magazine conducting the polls, and how the polls are presented as they do about the subject of the polls. I think AG's ukulele awards reflect that most people who read AG and participated in this poll are guitarists who probably don't have that much experience with ukuleles or, if they do, with companies that make higher end ukuleles but don't make guitars. Many of these poll participants probably buy mostly or only inexpensive ukuleles. I don't know whether the poll was multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, but I imagine that the results would be different if this poll was conducted among people who are primarily or exclusively ukulele players. (AG publishes Ukulele Magazine four times a year.)
Your thoughts?
Gold: Martin
Silver: Lanakai
Bronze: Cordoba
http://www.acousticguitar.com/News-Features/2014-Player-s-Choice-Awards/Player-s-Choice-Awards-Banjos-Mandolins-and-Ukuleles
All readers polls are necessarily self-selective, and the results often say as much about those who choose to particuipate in polls, the readership of the magazine conducting the polls, and how the polls are presented as they do about the subject of the polls. I think AG's ukulele awards reflect that most people who read AG and participated in this poll are guitarists who probably don't have that much experience with ukuleles or, if they do, with companies that make higher end ukuleles but don't make guitars. Many of these poll participants probably buy mostly or only inexpensive ukuleles. I don't know whether the poll was multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank, but I imagine that the results would be different if this poll was conducted among people who are primarily or exclusively ukulele players. (AG publishes Ukulele Magazine four times a year.)
Your thoughts?