![]() ![]() ![]() This is due to the so-called gear ratio, meaning the number of turns on a machine head’s knob relating to a full turn of the actual tuner post. Most ukuleles these days are made with geared guitar tuners, which make tuning relatively easy for beginners. My personal favourite is the dark brown all-mahogany Style 2, which is why I’ve chosen three all-solid Style 2-copies for this review. The higher the Style’s number the more intricate the cosmetic features, like bindings and rosettes, would be. The Martin Company originally introduced three soprano models in 1915, named Style 1, Style 2 and Style 3. Martin also sold bucketloads of the little instruments – their ”economy model” alone, the Martin Style 0, sold almost 90,000 units between 19, when the original production run ended (temporarily). Not content making mere copies of Hawaiian instruments Martin almost singlehandedly developed the ukulele further, raising the benchmark for how a great uke should look and sound in the process. Even though Martin is a company based in Pennsylvania, they have started crafting ukes during the ukulele boom of the 1910s already. Martin & Co is a legendary maker of ukuleles. If you’re interested in the history of this diminutive instrument you will have noticed that C. Over time our playing will have improved, making us feel that it was maybe time to step up to a higher quality uke, which in most cases will mean an all-solid instrument. Most of us will have started learning to play the uke with an affordable instrument, whose soundbox is probably made – at least in part – from laminated wood. All EQ-settings were kept identical between the three models.Īlkuperäinen suomenkielinen juttu on ilmestynyt Rockway-blogissa. The ukes have been recorded with a Citronic RM-06 ribbon microphone plugged into a Cranborne Audion Camden EC2 preamp. ![]()
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