Lanikai LU-6E 6-String Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Rosewood Fretboard

• Tenor 6-string
• Nato wood top, back, and sides
• Multiple binding
• 18 frets
• Inline gold tuners with pearl buttons

Product Description
This tenor 6-string is made with nato wood top, back, and sides. Multiple binding. 18 frets, inline gold tuners with pearl buttons. Shadow pickup with 2-band EQ and volume control. 26″W x 9″W x 2-7/8″D. Lanikai ukuleles have great playability, sound, and aesthetics at a price that will surprise you. The top, back, and sides are nato wood, which is very similar to mahogany. Binding on the top. Rosewood bridge and fingerboard. This ukulele is strung with Aquila Nylgut… More >>

Lanikai LU-6E 6-String Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Rosewood Fretboard

Lanikai O-8E 8-String Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Rosewood Fretboard

• Tenor ovankol sides and back with a solid spruce top
• Rosewood neck and gold tuners with pearl button tuning machines
• Belcat UK2000 preamp

Product Description
Tenor ovankol sides and back with a solid spruce top and Belcat UK2000 preamp. Rosewood neck and gold tuners with pearl button tuning machines.This ukulele is strung with Aquila Nylgut Strings…. More >>

Lanikai O-8E 8-String Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Rosewood Fretboard

Understanding The Ukulele Fretboard

The ukulele fretboard is one of the elements of this instrument that makes it both accessible to novices and flexible and complex enough for serious musicians. The fretboard is much like that found on a guitar or an electric bass. There are metal bars that separate one fret from the next, which eliminates the need to study distances such as is required of violinists or cellists. The fretboard is characteristically small. This allows very serious players to sound several different voices at once, essentially accompanying themselves by playing both the bass and melody to a song simultaneously.

Like a guitar fretboard, the ukulele fretboard is spaced so that each fret higher up the neck represents a half-step climb in pitch from the last. This allows any string to sound a chromatic scale between the open string and the 12th fret. The instrument is sometimes equipped with a cutaway that allows access to an extended neck beyond the 12th, where the body and neck traditionally meet. These frets tend to be very small and require skill to utilize effectively. They add a whole new dimension to the sound of a ukulele, however, and are used heavily by professionals.

Like most instruments, the tuning standards for a ukulele are designed to make sounding chords fairly easy. The ukulele is famously easy to chord. Most chords can be sounded by depressing only a couple of strings and changes are very easy, due to the short scale of the fretboard. If taking guitar lessons has proven frustrating due to one’s small hands, a ukulele may be a better choice. There are other elements that make ukuleles very quick to learn and flexible in their capabilities. Some of these flow from the small scale of the instrument.

The ukulele is famously transportable. The small scale of the ukulele fretboard gives it another significant advantage over larger instruments. The short strings and neck mean that notes are easily sounded with minimal finger pressure. Guitarists, cellists and bassists take years to develop the hand strength and calluses necessary to confidently sound a note on those instruments without discomfort. A ukulele is far more merciful in this regard, and even those without particularly strong hands should have no difficultly fretting the instrument. This is one of the reasons that the ukulele is such a good choice for those starting out in stringed instruments.

A ukulele fretboard is subject to the same environmental damage as is any fretboard. One needs to make sure that the wood is kept at a constant humidity level to avoid bowing or warping. One also needs to make sure that their tuning is correct. Always use a pitch fork or an electronic tuner to get the pitches right. Accidentally tuning too high increases the tension on the neck and, eventually, can make it more suited to shooting an arrow than playing a song. Always store the instrument in a case or on a stand to keep the neck safe from damage.

Lanikai CK-TEQ Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Koa Rosewood Fretboard

• Curly koa top, back, and sides
• Rosewood fretboard
• Shadow P3 pickup with 2-band EQ and volume controls
• Tenor size, 18 frets

Product Description
This tenor uke includes the Shadow P3 pickup with 2-band EQ and volume control. Curly koa top, back, and sides, with maple binding. Rosewood fretboard, 18 frets. Die-cast machine heads. 26″W x 9″W x 2-7/8″D.This ukulele is strung with Aquila Nylgut Strings and includes a Lanikai Learn to Play Instruction Booklet…. More >>

Lanikai CK-TEQ Acoustic-Electric Tenor Ukulele, Koa Rosewood Fretboard

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Fretboard Roadmaps – Ukulele: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use

• 80 Pages
• Published by HL
• Softcover with CD

Product Description
Take your uke playing to the next level with this great package that will teach you how to: strum backup chords all over the fretboard, in any key; play chord solos up and down the fretboard; solo in any key using first-position major scales, chord-based licks, and moveable major and blues scales; understand chord progressions; increase your chord vocabulary; and more. Tunes and exercises that illustrate each technique are written in standard notation and tablature … More >>

Fretboard Roadmaps – Ukulele: The Essential Patterns That All the Pros Know and Use