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Baroque Ukulele, Tenor, Rosewood, Pegs
Condition: New Brand: Quality 1 Trader Ltd Size: Tenor Instrument: Ukulele Sub-Type: Acoustic |
Based on the round-back guitar found in Germany, the Baroq-uleles™ are one of the most option-rich lines of instruments we carry. This Tenor-sized instrument is based upon a 430mm (17 inches) scale. It features a European spruce soundboard with an interlaced rosette design taken from a 16th century vihuela. The back is a round-back or bowl shape made of staves of sheesham rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo). The neck is solid sheesham rosewood and features a nut width of 37mm (1 1/2 inch) with a bone nut. This instrument is outfitted with standard friction ukulele Pegs. The tension on each friction tuner can be adjusted by tightening or loosening the screw on the top of the tuner. The bridge, also made of sheesham rosewood, incorporates a genuine bone saddle. An end-pin strap button is standard. Overall size: 26.75 x 9 x 4.75 inches. The Baroq-uleles™ come in 4 sizes including Soprano, Concert, Tenor and Baritone. Each size is graced with its own unique rosette design, each of which is taken from museum examples from the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to the four sizes, the Baroque-ulele™ is also available with 3 types of woods for the back: sheesham rosewood, lacewood (chenar) or variegated with alternating staves of rosewood and lacewood. Finally, ensuring that you will find an instrument that best fits your needs, these instruments are also available with two types of tuning keys: Baroque-style ebony tuning pegs or standard ukulele friction tuners. All Models are sold separately. |
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Ukulele initiated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian explanation of the machete, a small guitar-like instrument taken to Hawaii by Portuguese refugees. It achieved immense fame in the United States during the early 20th century, and from there expand globally.Ukuleles are usually linked with music from Hawaii where the name approximately interprets as "jumping flea", maybe because of the similarity of the player's finger actions to a "jumping flea". Developed in the 1880s, the ukulele is based on two small guitar-like instruments of Portuguese source, the cavaquinho and the rajao, launched to the Hawaiian Islands by Portuguese refugees from Madeira and Cape Verde. Three refugees specifically, Madeiran cabinet makers Manuel Nunes, José do Espírito Santo, and Augusto Dias, are usually accredited as the first ukulele producers. After Two weeks, they get off from the Ravenscrag in late August 1879, the Hawaiian Gazette reported that "Madeira Islanders newly reached here, have been pleasuring the people with nightly street shows."After the 1960s, the ukulele turned down in reputation until the late 1990s, when curiosity in the instrument restored. During the 1990s, new producers began producing ukuleles and a new generation of musicians took up the instrument. |
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