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Kala Concert Banjo Ukulele - Black Satin

Name: Kala Concert Banjo Ukulele - Black Satin
Brand: Kala
Rating: 4.5 (3 reviews)

Concert Banjo Ukulele with 5-ply Maple Shell, Mahogany Neck, Walnut Fingerboard, and Remo Weatherking Head - Black Satin

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Kala Concert Banjo Ukulele - Black Satin

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A Concert-sized Uke with the Power of a Banjo

You can hear the Kala Concert Banjo Ukulele loud and clear in almost any ensemble. It's designed to give you the enhanced snap and projection of a banjo, with the feel and tuning of a standard ukulele. The Concert Banjo Ukulele sports a Remo Weatherking banjo head, with an open-back design that enhances the vintage-style tone. It's not a banjo for ukulele players — a ukulele with the sound-enhancing properties of a banjo. If you regularly jam with your friends and need help making your ukulele heard, just grab the Kala Concert Banjo Ukulele from Sweetwater.

Kala Concert Ukulele Features:

Concert-sized ukulele with the sonic characteristics of a banjo
Remo Weatherking banjo head provides the snap and projection of a banjo
Open-back design enhances the vintage vaudeville sound
Bright sound is ideal for being heard in a large group of instruments
Easy for any ukulele player to pick up and play

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Tech Specs

Number of Strings: 4
Color: Black
Finish: Satin
Top Material: Remo Weatherking banjo head
Neck Material: Mahogany
Fingerboard Material: Walnut
Fingerboard Inlay: Maple Dots
Number of Frets: 18
Scale Length: 15.5"
Nut Material: Bone
Nut Width: 1.375"
Tuners: Open Gear Vintage Tuners
Strings: Kala Fluorocarbon
Case/Gig Bag: Gig Bag
Manufacturer Part Number: KA-BNJ-C

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I've had mine for a few weeks now. It is well made, looks great, easy to play and sounds like a banjo. What more could you want?

Superb and well crafted Uke. Because it feels and plays like a banjo it just seems to add to playing pleasure . . .and I like Ukes (I have 7 of them).

The Kala Banjolele is nothing special. It's cheap, but attractive in an industrial-looking way. It's primitive in that the neck has virtually NO adjustment for action (can't move it forward or backward in relation to the banjo body), although removing the neck and machining it is a possibility. The neck has good heft and thickness, but the finish is rather rough, and the nut width is quite narrow and tight. The geared tuners really beg for you to replace them with Gotoh UPT tuners, more in keeping with the instrument and much quicker tuning, once you get used to them. Overall, Kala had a good idea that wasn't taken far enough. The back panel on mine is more oblong than round, and that is unfortunate given that the banjo body it is fitted on is much more round than oblong... Take the back off and then struggle to align it properly for reattachment, guys! You can do it, but it may take a while. The frets and fretboard look OK, but something about its manufacture makes it difficult to get clear sounding chords when playing, and the lack of a compensated banjo bridge means getting near-perfect intonation is impossible. So then, we have a basic banjolele that could use some reworking to make it better. If only the thing had good tone, that would make its many drawbacks more acceptable, but the actual sound of this instrument is rather poor. You get a decent plunk, but the sound is not particularly pleasant. As a matter of fact, after playing this Banjolele exclusively for several weeks, I put it down for a bit and began playing my Kamaka Tenor Ukulele, and was amazed at how much better the Kamaka sounded. It was positively angelic when compared to the foul-sounding Kala Banjolele. Of course, the two instruments use different materials and construction techniques, but man, the tone of this Kala is dreadful! I'm not giving up on it, though, and I intend to try different string sets and hopefully, a compensated bridge, to get better sound quality. I'm quite sure Martin Fluorocarbon strings will provide somewhat better tone, and Kamaka Black Nylon strings, which are rather high tension, would provide more banjo-like plunk. So then, the Kala is primitive, cheaply built, needs improvements in playability and sound quality, but it does have one good feature; it's a fun toy! As awful as it is, you want to keep playing it. Kala gives you a minimally protective dust cover/gig bag with it.

See also: Banjo Guitar, Kala, Kala Ukuleles, Kala Banjos