Lanikai LU-21P Pinapple Ukulele
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Customer Review
Excellent beginner's ukulele
I've been wanting to learn ukulele for a while now and the price of the Lanikai LU-21P convinced me to finally get one.The ukulele arrived in a coffin shaped box with some thin foam padding and an instructional booklet. The booklet contains some quick instructions on how to tune your new instrument and also a short introduction to reading ukulele tabs. It also comes with tabs and lyrics for:- Row, row, row your boat- He's got the whole world in his hands- Are you sleeping?- Twinkle, twinkle little star- Amazing grace- When Irish eyes are smilingThe ukulele itself is extemely light weight, but I wouldn't expect much more for such an inexpensive ukulele. Everything seems to be made of a light wood except for the frets and tuning gears which are metal. The tuning knobs are plastic. The strings are made from something called Nylgut, which look like thick fishing line. Despite the light weight, the construction feels very...
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Product Description
The LU-21P Pineapple Soprano Ukulele is a favorite offered by Lanikai. With the attention to detail and easy playability it is easy to see why. This handcrafted ukulele is made with Nato wood (otherwise known as Eastern Mahogany) on its top back and sides. When this wood choice is paired with the Rosewood fingerboard it brings out a mellow tone with an enhanced midrange that is often missing in instruments in this price point. With the easy playability, and included instruction booklet written by Mary Lou Dempler you will be playing in a matter of minutes.If you have never played ukulele before get ready for a world of fun. The ukulele is an addicting instrument that can and will be taken everywhere. The standard tuning on a Soprano, Concert, and Tenor ukulele is GBEA, and on a Baritone DGBE. If you can play one ukulele you can play them all! Pick up a Lanikai today and see why people are saying Lanikai Makes Me Happy! For more information about this model or Lanikai please visit www.Lanikaiukes.com Top to learn more
great little instrument
I was looking for uke stuff and noticed there was no review for this little guy. I'm originally a guitar player but after my second deployment to iraq started looking around for a more portable instrument, a guitar is always welcome at a FOB (ends up being passed around enough to be almost community property) but it just takes up too much room in an uparmored humvee or chinook or what have you. I was looking at things like the martin backpacker but it seemed like too much of a compromise, I thought about picking up the violin but playing one badly is liable to create tension in tight quarters, so I eventually found my way to the humble ukulele. The main problem was the *image* of the thing, the whole steely eyed killer routine kind of clashes with the tiny tim stereotype of the uke. But I persevered, did a lot of research and settled on this.I think it's just about the perfect starter ukulele, it's got a nice warm tone, the shape helps I think almost as much as the quality...
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Great for Beginners & Dabblers
i'll make this short and to-the-point (no life story here): the Lanikai LU-21P is a great starter ukulele for someone who needs to learn the basics or wants to figure out if this instrument is for them. i know there were some complaints about the strings not staying tuned and being of "cheap" quality, however, this is not so. one must always tune and re-tune brand new strings a couple times. this is normal for stringed instruments and does not mean they are cheap. while the body itself is on the cheaper side (Nato wood: the body won't last too long and the sound is pretty shallow) the strings are Aquila Nylgut, which are some of the best out there. altogether, i found this instrument to be very easy to tune. the accompanying book is pretty useless, i suggest searching YouTube for tuning help.a side note: if you're a fan of Beirut, i read that Zach Condon uses a Lanikai LU-21, which is the standard-shaped version of this ukulele.anyway, i wish you luck in your...
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cute but cracked!