Martin S-O Ukulele: What Is This, A Guitar For Ants?!?! It Has To Be At Least Three Times Bigger!!!
This one time, I was in a [music instrument retail chain store location], jamming out on a Martin S-O Ukulele, when these two [jerks] walked by, regarding me with mocking derision. One of them said to me "rock out, son," and his friend laughed. For the moment, anyway, for I responded to his jibe by commencing the sweetest two-handed tapping flourish either of the man-children had seen e'en in their dreams. They were speechless, and I simply threw the Uke to the nearest [music instrument retail chain store location] sales rep and walked out the door, feeling triumphant.
Just kidding; I smashed the S-O over the first dude's head, knocking him unconscious, and then I stabbed the other dude in the eye with the remaining instrument, mostly just jagged, solid-mahogany neck and dovetail joint. ROCK!
Just kidding; I pretended not to notice / hear them. EMO!
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ON A MARTIN S-O UKULELE]
OWEN O'MALLEY: Welcome back to Gearwire.Com. This awesome axe is the Martin S-O Ukulele.
Now, the Martin S-O Ukulele is a little more expensive than most sort of mass-market ukulele’s. It’s pretty easy to get a decent playable ukulele in the under $100 range, including a case usually, and the Martin is over 300. So, what do you get for a $300 ukulele? Well, you get this all-mahogany solid wood construction, which makes for actually a louder tone and a more focused tone. You also get far superior intonation than most ukuleles in the under $100 range. For whatever reason, tuning and intonation on ukuleles, even in the lower five frets is just sort of like -- it’s always just happenstance if it actually is in tune and intonated correctly.
This ukulele features gearless tuners, meaning that when you get your ukulele the tuners might sort of slip out of place when you try to bring it up to tune. Sopranos by the way are tuned A, D, B, F-sharp I believe. A, D, B, F-sharp. Yes. And bringing it up to standard soprano tuning, you might notice the tuners slip. If we look at the back of the tuners, you can just see that you can just tighten them using a simple small Phillips head screwdriver. Careful not to over-tighten them. Just tighten them enough so that they stay in tune in the range that you want.
As you can hear, the intonation is pretty good on this guy.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ON A MARTIN S-O UKULELE]
It’s a very simple little thing. Standard ukulele tuning, soprano tuning, this A, or the intervals are kind of setup like the highest string intervals on the guitar where we’ve got a fourth, a third, and a fourth. This string though, the A, which in a typical sort of string instrument arrangement would be the lowest string [PLUCKS UKULELE STRINGS] is actually the second highest string. It’s an octave higher than it would be if it was just the sort of standard guitar intervals, and so it leads to some interesting picking patterns if you’re doing like Travis picking or any other kind of picking.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ON A MARTIN S-O UKULELE]
Sort of can end up playing lead melody lines with your thumb.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ON A MARTIN S-O UKULELE]
So there you go. That is the Martin S-O Ukulele, soprano ukulele. You've been watching Gearwire.Com and I’m Owen O'Malley.
[OWEN O'MALLEY PLAYING ON A MARTIN S-O UKULELE]
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