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Caraya 4-String Maple Body Resonator Banjolele - Natural SBJUK118
Caraya 4-String Maple Body Resonator Banjolele - Natural SBJUK118
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Caraya 4-String Banjo Ukulele, Concert Size, Satin Finish w/Free gig bag SBJUK-118
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO6gQX4kqBg
The Banjo Ukulele is a four-stringed musical instrument with a small banjo-type body and a fretted ukulele neck.
The Instrument achieved its greatest popularity in the 1920s and '30s and combines the small scale, tuning, and playing style of a ukulele with the construction and distinctive tone of a banjo, hence the name. Its development was pushed by the need for vaudeville performers to have an instrument that played with the ease of the ukulele but with more volume.
Features:
- Model: SBJUK118
- Concert Size
- Total Length 630mm
- Nut width 34mm
- Scale 398mm (Tenor)
- 12 bracket cast copper tone ring
- Remo's head
- Flame Maple Resonator, natural maple bound
- Maple neck, natural maple bound
- 18 Frets with pearl dot inlays
- Rosewood fingerboard
- Maple w/rosewood cap Bridge
- Open gear tuners with white pearloid buttons
- The tuning set to GCEA
- Satin Finish
- Weight 1.75kg
- Included: Free gig bag or Hard Case (Optional), 3 Picks
We're a genuine AUS-based company offering quality items at prices far cheaper than the high street.
Every item is carefully packaged to ensure safe shipment to you.
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Gorgeous banjolele - to look at, to listen to, and to play. Customer service excellent - picked up on an order mistake and checked with me before processing order.
Thank you for your kind words! We are thrilled to hear that you are enjoying your new Caraya banjolele. Our team takes great pride in providing excellent customer service, so we are happy to have caught the order mistake and corrected it for you. Happy playing!
excellent unit, excellent service from Kookaburra, all up very pleased
I received my Caraya banjolele today and am ragtiming on it right now. I’m a busily gigging musician on another instrument, and recently have been learning an (open back) banjolele for some fun. This Caraya is wonderful! Below are some impressions.
Forum searches suggested there might not be much difference between my open back and this. However, this Caraya resonator is much louder. It also has more banjo “twang” than the open back, which is softer and rounder in tone. Volume and twang are features which I sought both for themselves, and as a contrast to the instrument I already have, and this delivers.
Forum searches also suggested that the weight difference would be unpleasant, and while I’m yet to spend hours on this, it feels substantial and yet is not that weighty. If you’ve got neck problems then an open back is probably better, but I can think of other instruments utilising a strap which are much heavier.
The neck is thicker than my other banjolele. Despite other dimensions being the same, this feels much nicer for my male hands, which can feel more cramped on both my open back and standard ukulele. The thickness means that my hand feels more open, less claw-like.
In short, this is a aesthetically beautiful instrument to the eyes, and perfect to the ears for the ‘20s music I play. It is crazily cheap for the quality. Kookaburra posted it immediately and it arrived very quickly. I’m very happy with this thing of beauty.
Great item, fast postage, very well packed, would recommend. Thank you.
Great product and super fast shipping!! Thank you!!!
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You may return most new, unopened items within 150 days of delivery for a full refund. We'll also pay the return shipping costs if the return is a result of our error (you received an incorrect or defective item, etc.).
You should expect to receive your refund within four weeks of giving your package to the return shipper, however, in many cases you will receive a refund more quickly. This time period includes the transit time for us to receive your return from the shipper (5 to 10 business days), the time it takes us to process your return once we receive it (3 to 5 business days), and the time it takes your bank to process our refund request (5 to 10 business days).
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Gorgeous banjolele - to look at, to listen to, and to play. Customer service excellent - picked up on an order mistake and checked with me before processing order.
Thank you for your kind words! We are thrilled to hear that you are enjoying your new Caraya banjolele. Our team takes great pride in providing excellent customer service, so we are happy to have caught the order mistake and corrected it for you. Happy playing!
excellent unit, excellent service from Kookaburra, all up very pleased
I received my Caraya banjolele today and am ragtiming on it right now. I’m a busily gigging musician on another instrument, and recently have been learning an (open back) banjolele for some fun. This Caraya is wonderful! Below are some impressions.
Forum searches suggested there might not be much difference between my open back and this. However, this Caraya resonator is much louder. It also has more banjo “twang” than the open back, which is softer and rounder in tone. Volume and twang are features which I sought both for themselves, and as a contrast to the instrument I already have, and this delivers.
Forum searches also suggested that the weight difference would be unpleasant, and while I’m yet to spend hours on this, it feels substantial and yet is not that weighty. If you’ve got neck problems then an open back is probably better, but I can think of other instruments utilising a strap which are much heavier.
The neck is thicker than my other banjolele. Despite other dimensions being the same, this feels much nicer for my male hands, which can feel more cramped on both my open back and standard ukulele. The thickness means that my hand feels more open, less claw-like.
In short, this is a aesthetically beautiful instrument to the eyes, and perfect to the ears for the ‘20s music I play. It is crazily cheap for the quality. Kookaburra posted it immediately and it arrived very quickly. I’m very happy with this thing of beauty.
Great item, fast postage, very well packed, would recommend. Thank you.
Great product and super fast shipping!! Thank you!!!