Lanikai LU-21 Soprano Ukulele

Celebrate a situate where heaven meets the ocean when you strum on this soprano ukulele (model LU-21) from Lanikai's LU series--one of its much popular and reasonable ukuleles. Offering a classic, sweet island sound, it's a excellent choice for first-time players or for acoustic multi-instrumentalists looking to extend their tonal palette.

The LU-21 uses nato wood for top, back and side construction and rosewood for its fret board. Reddish nato wood, in addition known as eastern mahogany, is often used in extra reasonable guitars and ukuleles and proposes many of the same acoustic properties as mahogany. This package consists of an instruction booklet this will guide into a lifelong enjoyment of this instrument.

Specifications

• Size: Standard
• Scale length: 14 inches
• Width at nut: 1.375 inches
• Top construction: Nato
• Back/side construction: Nato
• Fret board construction: Rosewood
• Frets: 12
• Machines: Chrome/ivoroid geared
• Binding: White

Ukulele History

The Ukulele is actually the descendant of a four-stringed musical instrument known as the machête or, less accurately, the braguinha from the Portuguese island of Madeira. There are many theories concerning how the ukulele got its name. The two much-circulated stories contain one concerning an English army officer, Edward Purvis, who became quite adept at playing the machête. For the reason that he was small and sprightly (as opposed to the markedly big frames of the Hawaiians), he was nicknamed "Ukulele," which in Hawaiian means "jumping flea" (in addition translated as "bouncing Flea" or "leaping flea"). A extra literal theory likens the fingers of an accomplished player flying nimbly up and down the fretboard of the machête to the movement of "jumping fleas."