Ukuleles ANueNue Solid Hawaiian Koa Tenor Ukulele (ANN-AKK3)

Wood

AKK3 used solid Hawaiian Koa as a top, back and side wood.

Hawaiian Koa – Hawaiian Koa is native to Hawaii, and famous for its exquisite appearance. This type of tonewood is influenced by the age of the tree, the soil and even the level of elevation it grows in. These variances create darker grain patterns adding horizontal and vertical texture; and this color and striping creates the 3D like curly, tiger, flame appearance. When played, Koa produce a sweet warm mid-range and thicker luscious highs. With time Koa will unleash comprehensively stunning warmer overtone.

Top, back and sides are all solid wood. aNueNue uses wood that has been naturally air dried wood and are season for many years before even being put into production. All our solid woods are used for our high end pieces. All aNueNue’s solid wood pieces require time to open up and will develop an overall distinguished more complex harmonic tone quality.

Details

The abalone and wooden rosette was designed for the elegant look. Mahogany binding was added for better protection to the body.

Headstock

The AKK2 has classical headstock design made with a Hawaiian Koa veneer in mother of pearl logo. The tuners with 1:16 gear ratio for precise tuning.

Fretboard

Rosewood is a hard tone wood that with open pores. It’s a stable wood to be a fretboard, and also adaptable to climate changes. The 20-fret design, allows for endless tonal possibilities.

Bridge / Saddle

The smiley-shaped rosewood bridge helps support the string tension. The buffalo bone for the nut which is very hard and articulate. This helps the strings to vibrate and to have a deep resonance. The compensated saddle designed to provide the accurate intonation and produce the correctly pitched note.

 Specifications
Size: Tenor
Frets: 20
Top, Back, Side: Solid Hawaiian Koa
Headplate: Hawaiian Koa
Machine Head: Gear Pegs
Neck: Mahogany
Bridge: Rosewood
Nut / Saddle: Buffalo Bone
Fretboard: Rosewood
Inlays: MOP Dot Inlays
String: aNueNue Black Water Strings
Finish: High Gloss
Rosette: Abalone – Wood
Pickup (optional): aNueNue Air Blue U
Binding: Mahogany
Gigbag: Deluxe Gigbag

Ukulele stand shown in photos are for illustration purposes only, not included in the package. Ukulele photos featured are representations of the model, may not be the actual piece. Wood grains vary for different pieces.

All ukuleles purchased from UKULELE MOVEMENT come with a 1-year warranty against manufacturing defects. For warranty details please refer to this link.

Pickup (optional): aNueNue Air Blue U

aNueNue Air Blue Dual Pickup is design to produce the clear and transparent tone of instrument. Air Blue is friendly to use with simple (Vol) and (Mic) control. It’s unique, discrete design class A Circuit, delivers low distortion, low noise, and dynamic tone. Low power operation with a CR2032 coin battery.