The Yamaha Guitalele, Great piece, After 23 years of steady donating in FF I finally won the superbowl last year and had my heart set on a "found money" ukelele purchase. I checked out a few and wasn't blown away with any of them. I know top shelf martin's can run as much as $2K-3K, but I wasn't looking for that kind of musical tool/toy investment.
The cheaper ones never made the leap from toy to tool for me, too plucky/plingy for my tastes, It seemed like they'd all be owned by Woody in Toy Story? I had a ~$300 Martin Rosewood Uke coming in on back order in October, but a friend who runs that guitar portion of a local shop called and said I gotta check this baby out. The "Guitalele" I fell in love with it. It's got that minstrel ukelele feel sound, but it's a legitimate instrument, It lists at a mere $99 and I got it for ~$80, Great little musical tool. It's got that classical guitar sound due to the nylon strings, but in that mini uke feel.
It tunes as if you're capoed at the 5th fret (ADGCEA), Here's a sampling....
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