Kmise Concert Ukulele Uke Acoustic Hawaiian Guitar 23 Inch 18 Frets Mahagany With Ukelele Bag and Tuner

Beautiful, unique solid spruce top concert ukulele with laser design etchings of wheat and water fowl. The sound is strong and good. Absolutely Awesome ukulele. After a week of play, it sounds even better and stays in tune quite well. I am so pleasantly surprised that the Ukulele came with two strap buttons installed, although that was not mentioned in the specs. Makes this a great value. Even better than expected. This ukulele is a gift to myself to celebrate and reward myself for my two year ukulele anniversary of practising self-taught to play ukulele with assistance of YouTube tutorials. I am quite pleased with this ukulele. I love looking at it and playing it. Note: Sorry that the lighting in my apartment or cell phone camera makes the color of the spruce wood look more appricot than yellow.

This is the second ukulele I’ve purchase from this company, their other brand name being aklot, and I’m not disappointed in the slightest. This ukulele is very well made. It’s got a solid spruce top, which gives it a nice crisp sound, and mohogany back and sides. The soundhole is a cool flower shape, which doesn’t seem to affect the sound at all if you’re concerned about that. When you look into the inside, it’s very clean with no glue spots or anything like that. The top has a nice laser etched design with flowers and fairies. It’s also got a nice white with black striped binding around the body. The neck is very smooth, and the fret edges are filed down nice and smooth too. It comes with some decent sealed geared tuners, and fitted with some Aquila strings. Also it has a really nice action on it already, which is rare to find on a uke straight out of the box. Even much more expensive ukes usually need a set up done on them to get a nice height on the nut and saddle. This one comes pretty perfect already. Of course I should note that like any stringed instrument, the strings will need to stretch and be tuned constantly for the first few days before they’ll stay in tune. So all in all, there’s no reason for me to not recommend this ukulele to anyone, beginner or seasoned player. I have only a couple nitpicky complaints, one is that there are no side fret markers. Another is that the other uke I bought from them has strap buttons, this one does not, and being the odd shape of the soundhole it is something I’d hope to see on this. And lastly, the kmise logo on the headstock is/was coming up around the edges right out of the box. None of these things affect its playability so I still give it a solid 5 star rating. After the strings have settled a bit more I’ll load up a short video for a sound sample.

Tuners good, sound good, workmanship good, intonation good. The SOLID spruce top has 20 growth rings per inch which is pretty good. update after 7 months of playing: I still love it. I should have mentioned it came with side dots and top dots at fret 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 17, and has 18 frets, I got the cheapest Kmise and it came unfinished on the spruce. That played fine but I thought over time it might get dirty or scratched so I smeared Wipe on Polyurethane by Minwax on it and it came out great. A spray can finish is probably even easier. I also rounded off any rough areas on the bridge and keyboard edge just like I did to 2 other brands of Uke I bought (Ulumac, Uma) so the Kmise is just as nice as those except no finish on the spruce which some players like the sound of. I couldn't notice any sound difference between finished and unfinished but being spruce makes a big difference over mahogany but everyone has different preferences. I also put a stick-on pick guard for a few dollars to protect it. I can't help mentioning I put Worth Low G Brown Flourocarbon strings (which look black) and love those too. They took 2 months to get stable but now rarely need tuning.

Overall this ukelele is a great product for the price. PROs - Cute artwork on the face of the uke. It comes with a carrying case (2 shoulder straps and 1 hand strap for different carrying options) which is of decent quality. It's not super padded so you still need to be careful when setting it down but enough protection to prevent scratches and dings. It comes with the strap buttons already attached so you don't have to worry about ruining the instrument trying to attach them yourself. It comes with a tuner, pik and extra strap button. Tuner works well so far but seems to have a hard time pining down notes at times and will change from "not the right note" to "the exact note" depending on how hard you strum. Don't know if that has to do with the tuner itself or plastic strings. CONS - IT DOES NOT COME WITH A STRAP so if you want one you'll have to purchase that separately. This isn't all bad because you can get one thats totally your style. I got a really cute one from another vendor and it's great. Next, if you have larger fingers it may take some maneuvering to play notes clearly. I have fairly small fingers and they are still crowded on the neck leaving me with a lot of "dead" notes. Obviously, this could be due to my lack of expertise :). Last, heavy strumming will get the uke out of tune quickly, even mid song. SO. But overall, great product for the price.

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Ukulele is a fantastic music instrument and I love to play it and Amazon is the perfect place to buy it.

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ES Compré este ukulele (tamaño concierto) después de leer mucho y revisar reseñas. Estoy bastante contento con él hasta ahora (llegó hace dos días). Viene con las cuerdas (Aquila) ligeramente aflojadas, por lo que se han estirado un poco para mantenerse afinadas, pero aún necesitarán unos días para asentarse correctamente. Habiendo dicho eso, solo ahora se está desviando un poco. Los ukuleles soprano son demasiado pequeños para mis manos (y no tengo manos grandes), por lo que fue un alivio tocar el tamaño del concierto en lugar de la soprano de mi hijo. Es mucho más fácil de tocar acordes e incluso tocar algunas escalas/carreras. Los afinadores son bastante precisos y hay muy poco deslizamiento al afinar. El instrumento tiene una entonación bastante buena, por ejemplo, todavía está bastante afinado en el traste 12. Yo no llamaría a esto un instrumento para principiantes, por cierto; Toco la guitarra y creo que este ukulele es mucho mejor que eso. Y tiene un tono agradable, uniforme y claro, aunque no muy fuerte, que no me importa en absoluto. Cosas para mirar: 1. La acción fue bastante alta desde el primer momento, pero limar el puente por 1-2 mm en su mayoría lo solucionó y mejoró la jugabilidad. 2. Desafortunadamente, el mío tenía un par de clavijas/sintonizadores sesgados. Esto es principalmente cosmético, pero todo lo que se necesitaría es que la persona que ensambla el instrumento tenga un poco más de cuidado y alinee las cosas correctamente. Me las arreglé para girarlos un poco y volver a apretar los tornillos de sujeción. Pero eso no debería ser necesario ni siquiera en un instrumento económico como este. 3. Los trastes no eran realmente suaves en el borde del diapasón, a pesar de la descripción. Usé una lima fina para repintarlos cuidadosamente. Este tipo de cosas puede deberse a que el aire seco encoge la madera del diapasón, por lo que no es tan inusual. 4. No viene con ni siquiera una bolsa básica, ni notas ni una simple hoja de acordes. Bastante justo, pero por casi ningún costo, Kmise podría incluirlos (¡así como un anuncio para sus propios casos!). Eso es lo que haría de todos modos. De todos modos, recomiendo esta pequeña belleza a cualquiera que tenga curiosidad por los ukuleles, guitarristas que quieran diversificarse un poco, etc. EN I bought this (concert sized) uke after a lot of reading and checking reviews. I'm pretty happy with it so far (it arrived two days ago). It comes with the (Aquila) strings slightly slacked off so they have had some stretching to stay in tune but will still need a few days to settle in properly. Having said that, it's only drifting a bit even now. Soprano ukes are too small for my hands (and I do not have large hands) so the concert size was a relief to play instead of my kid's soprano. Much easier to fret chords and even play some scales/runs. The tuners are quite accurate and there is very little slip while tuning. The instrument has pretty good intonation - as in, it's still quite in tune at the 12th fret. I wouldn't call this a beginner's instrument, btw; I play guitar and I think this uke is much better than that. And it has a nice even, clear tone, though not very loud, which I don't care at all about. Things to watch: 1. The action was quite high out of the box but filing down the bridge by 1-2mm mostly fixed that and really improved playability. 2. Mine unfortunately had a couple of the machine heads/tuners skewed. This is mostly cosmetic but all it would take is for the person assembling the instrument to take a bit more care and line things up properly. I managed to rotate them a bit a re-tighten the holding screws. But that shouldn't be necessary even on an economical instrument like this. 3. The frets were not actually smooth on the edge of the fretboard, despite the description. I used a fine file to carefully refinish them. This kind of thing can be due to dry air shrinking the fretboard wood so it's really not that unusual. 4. It doesn't come with even a basic bag, and no notes or a simple chord sheet. Fair enough but for next to no cost, Kmise could throw these in (as well as an ad for their own cases!). That's what I'd do anyway. Anyway, I recommend this little beauty for anyone curious about ukuleles, guitarists wanting to branch out a bit, etc.