The New Mainland Ukulele

My beautiful new Mainland ukulele

My ukulele arrived today, and it’s more beautiful than I expected. I had thought the ropework was a solid color, but it actually looks like thin layers of wood sandwiched together.

The gloss finish is beautiful! I can’t find any imperfections in it. And Mike at Mainland Ukes set it up perfectly for me. The intonation is perfect.

I’m thrilled. But I have a LOT of work ahead of me to make it sing like the guy playing Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head in my previous post! 🙂

Beautiful gloss finish!

Mainland Uke head

Closeup of rope inlay

Nice low action

by tinycamper on May 6, 2011 • Permalink

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Posted by tinycamper on May 6, 2011

https://tinycamper.org/2011/05/06/the-new-mainland-ukulele/

4 Comments

Gwen
/ May 6, 2011

It IS beautiful! My grandma played. She only taught me the piano though.
May you two have a beautiful and musical life together!!!!

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Ann
/ May 6, 2011

Happy strumming!

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ukulefty
/ May 7, 2011

That really is a beauty!!!! Totally jealous. I wasn’t a fan of the roping design when I first saw them but it’s certainly growing on me. It’s very country, haha! The Mainland is definitely on my shortlist for the uke I am going to buy (or invest in as I tell the missus) next!

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- tinycamper
  / May 7, 2011
  
  The roping design looks a lot better in person than it does in most pictures I’ve seen of it. It IS a little country looking, but I like the visual interest it adds.
  
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