Tiny Tenor Koa
SKU
Tiny Tenor Koa
Special Price
$819.00
Regular Price
$919.00
|or$74/month*
Portability of a Concert - Feel & Tone of a Tenor!
Pepe Romero and Daniel Ho designed this new instrument called a Tiny Tenor. It travels like a concert, feels like a tenor, and has an absolutely gorgeous tone. This model has an All solid Hawaiian Koa body with a profoundly beautiful abalone shell rosette with a high gloss lacquer finish.
This is the import, "affordable" version made by Romero Creations. It's better than I had imagined, This is truly a high quality musical instrument at a great value. The workmanship is beautiful and the materials are top notch. But the most standout feature of this instrument is it's sound.
take a listen~
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Koa Tiny Tenor. Wow What A Uke! 2 people found this helpfulI just received my Koa Tiny Tenor. Wow what a Uke! The build quality is amazing! Plus it is absolutely gorgeous! But the best part is the sound. I had another brand of high quality Uke that was a full size tenor. It didn't even come close to the sound quality of this. I would like to thank The Ukulele Site and Joel specifically. They let me exchange the other Uke I bought from them for my Tiny Tenor. The other Uke did not measure up to the standard I was looking for. They took the other Uke back, setup my new one and got it back to me in a week. Now that is customer service! When I buy more Ukes I will always buy them from The Ukulele Site, I highly recommend them. Thanks again Joel for taking care of my issues in a quick and professional manner.
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Great Instrument! 0 people found this helpfulThis instrument is very well made and sounds great. The frets are low which makes fingering a bit more challenging. Although it is a concert size....it will NOT fit into standard concert cases. The bout is wider than a conventional concert and the neck angle is such that it will not fit into an RB Continental case comfortably (the lid smashes down on the instrument and I am not comfortable with that) So you really need that Romero Case, but it is not a hard case. So traveling on a plane may be a problem.
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Wonderful instrument 0 people found this helpfulSampled this beautiful instrument and fell in love. Admirable craftsmanship. Lovely rich resonance. So easy to play and perform with.
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Exceptional Uke 2 people found this helpfulTook delivery of my Koa low G Tiny Tenor today. Very comfortable and appealing size. beautiful tone wood. perfect fit and finish. full rich sound. SUSTAIN and live vibration through the body. Makes it so rewarding to hug it and feel it respond as you play. I'm truly looking forward to growing old with this uke. Very very enjoyable. Thanks HMS. thanks Romero Creations. Nice Job!!
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Exceeded my expectations! 2 people found this helpfulThe first thing that struck me when I pulled this all koa uke out of the case was the stunning look and the quality of the craftsmanship. I would say the quality of the build is equal to the higher priced tenor ukes I own. While the shape may seem unusual, the fit is very comfortable. Resting my arm on the wider bout feels very similar to playing my standard size tenors. I know you want to hear about the sound, but before I get there I need to comment on my buying experience with HMS. First, let me say I would buy from HMS again in a heartbeat, but as with all companies there is always room for improvement and I hope my comments will be taken in the constructive way I intend. I emailed HMS on a Monday asking when they might be getting in more koa tiny tenors as there were none on the website. I emailed because of the time difference and because, well....they said email us. By Thursday I still had no reply so that didn't give me a warm fuzzy. So I called on Thursday and got Eli and asked him the same question. He said he didn't know the answer but he would find out and get back with me. Within a half hour Eli calls back and explains they don't have a date yet on future shipments, but he found a koa tiny tenor in the store and asked me if I wanted to buy it. Absolutely! Then Eli waits till I can bring up the HMS web page on my computer before he puts this tiny tenor on the website, so that I can order it instantaneously before someone else snatches it up. Thanks Eli for going that extra yard! After ordering I realized I hit the order button so quick I had forgotten to ask the uke be strung with D'Addario J71's because I am a high G player, and that's my stock strings. So I replied to my order email with my request. The next day I get an email confirmation they had gotten my request and they would make sure the J71's got put on. Thanks again HMS! From the date of order to the date of delivery only took 7 days which was much faster than I expected because of the time to setup the uke. The setup was just what you would expect from HMS, superb. Only one problem though. The J71's never got put on, unless I missed where D'Addario is now packaging those with a wound low g. Bummer. I didn't have any J71's at the moment, so I ordered those elsewhere. Bottom line, yes there were a couple of irritations and no company gets it 100% right every time, but I know HMS is the kind of company that always works to get better. And to repeat, I will buy from them again. Finally, let's talk about the koa tiny tenor with high g strings. The only reviews I had ever seen, or heard, was with the La Bella low g strings. So I was a little apprehensive as to how the uke would handle the high g's. As said before in other reviews, the uke has plenty of volume and tremendous sustain for coming right out of the box. When picked it responds with clarity. When strummed it doesn't sound as deep as a standard tenor, but it's close! (Maybe different strings would close that difference.) It certainly doesn't sound like a concert. My wife thinks it sounds like my standard tenor. I would highly recommend the tiny tenor to anybody. It looks great, sounds great, and is fun to play. And you can easily take it anywhere!