Wana’ao<\/a> – so check that page to find out more.\u00a0 In any case, as a gift for my brother, it is blessed to be my first uke that makes it to the beautiful island of Kaua’i, where he lives,<\/p>\nFor „play-in“ I started with the Aquila Lavas in Lili’u tuning again. I liked them on the Wana’ao, although they did lose their punch and started to sound dull quite fast, so we’ll see how we do with them this time. I may change them before I send her off to Kaua’i.<\/p>\n
And now, as always, the list of details:<\/p>\n
\n- Top: roasted spruce from Mittenwald<\/li>\n
- Back and sides: plum from an orchard near Landau<\/li>\n
- Neck: alder with walnut and flamed maple heel<\/li>\n
- Fretboard and head plate: roasted flamed maple, fretboard with 20″ radius<\/li>\n
- Bridge:
plum<\/del> walnut **<\/li>\n- Nut: boxwood, stained in English Breakfast tea and burnished<\/li>\n
- Rosette: plum with walnut rings<\/li>\n
- Binding: walnut<\/li>\n
- Tail graft: walnut and flamed maple<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
So, as you can see, no tropical or otherwise endangered woods were used in the making of this instrument. It thereby earns the official North Sea Seal of Approval as an Ecolele >>> loud clapping and honking… „and thanks for all the fish“…<\/p>\n\n\t\t