Key Features
- Easy to play, superbly resonant tenor-style body
- Authentic Hawaiian style delivers a classic aesthetic
- Responsive with a smooth playing action thanks to walnut fretboard
- A magnificent all-round ukulele for a fantastic price
Luna Ukulele Honu Tribal Turtle Tenor Overview
The Luna Ukulele Honu Tribal Turtle Tenor boasts a wonderful, warming sound palette thanks to the its all-mahogany construction. No matter your playing style, you'll be able to experience classic ukulele tones with unparalleled warmth and a full-bodied sound. Benefit from extreme playability with the Honu's tenor body, helping you hone your skill and improve your overall ability. A stylish, eye-catching aesthetic ensures that you'll have a supremely beautiful instrument in your hands. A body adorned with Hawaiian tattoo-style artwork gives the Honu an authentic feel, inspired by the island of the ukulele's birth. If you're searching for an instrument with amazing sound quality that's easy to play and looks divine, then look no further. The Luna Honu is the answer to your prayers.
Product Ref: 124007
Full Description
View Full DescriptionFantastic resonance and superb playing action
Top quality sound in a model that's easy to play. The larger tenor body size provides significantly more resonance than standard, smaller-bodied ukuleles. While maintaining classic ukulele tone, the Honu delivers excellent acoustic volume and brings with it unparalleled warmth, depth, and richness. Ideal for home practice and small venue performance.
The larger size also affords greater ease of playability. This is because the fretboard is larger, meaning it's significantly easier to hit more difficult notes and play complex chords. The perfect ukulele for larger fingered players and those wishing to improve their skills.
Stunning Hawaiian style
A lesson in how to make an instrument beautiful. The Luna Honu Tenor ukulele is adorned with exquisite artwork inspired by traditional Hawaiian body ornamentation. An intricately detailed pattern depicting a Pacific turtle (Honu) at the instrument's soundhole gives an entirely authentic, Hawaiian feel to the overall aesthetic. The stylish image is completed with triangular pearl shark's teeth fret markers running up the neck. This ukulele is certain to look great on any stage.
Responsive neck and smooth fretboard
The perfect complement to your sound. A mahogany neck will respond astutely to any playing style or technique, and deliver punch and bite in every note you play. Mahogany is the tonewood of choice for the vast majority of ukulele manufacturers, as it delivers a brightness of tone perfectly suited to the instrument.
Energetic playing has never been easier. A walnut fingerboard delivers smoothness and is extremely comfortable to the touch. This prevents your fingers from getting sore and allows you to play faster and for longer. The ideal fretboard for honing your talents and becoming a ukulele master.
The Luna story
Yvonne Villiers is an accomplished stained-glass artist who envisioned Luna guitars. Her inspiration for a line of guitars designed to maximise playing comfort came from her mother, Hilda Villiers, a bassist for over 40 years. Whilst watching her mum on stage, Yvonne couldn't help but notice the massive struggle her mum had whilst playing. With her mum being petite and using such a heavy instrument, she used to complain of how hard it was to be a woman and try to play these big bass guitars.
Yvonne then questioned if there were others like her mum that struggled with the same problems and pains. She came up with the idea of a woman specific guitar, uniquely tailored to fit their bodies, their hands, and their musical styles. Yvonne moved on to create Luna guitars, an instrument line made for female musicians of all ages and crafted with luminous visual beauty to engage women's minds and spirits along with their talent.
Yvonne already had brilliant artistic skills and use of colour thanks to her award winning stained glass work. She then applied these techniques to her new line of instruments. She is known for using rich colours that shimmer and shine with every movement, providing an eye-catching design along with the great musical tones Luna guitars deliver.
Villiers' design expertise soon led to Luna expanding its product base to include a whole new range of stringed instruments, especially ukuleles. The science behind the crafting of top-calibre guitars worked perfectly in making ukuleles with magnificent sound. Not to mention that they looked stunning. Luna's quality has led to many men adopting their instruments as favourites. The company is now an industry leader, and creates instruments for both female and male musicians of all ages.
Specifications
Body & Bridge
- Model Name: Luna Ukulele Honu Tribal Turtle Tenor
- Body Material: Mahogany
- Body Type: UKE Tenor
- Top Material: Mahogany
- Top Contour: Flat Top
- Binding: None
- Bridge: Walnut
- Finish: Satin Natural
- Construction: Set Neck
Neck & Fingerboard
- Neck Material: Mahogany
- Fretboard Material: Walnut
- Number of Frets: 14
- Fretboard Inlays: Pearl Triangle "Shark's Teeth"
- Scale Length: 19"
- Neck Shape: C
- Fretboard Radius: Flat
- Nut Width: 1.3125"
Hardware
- Hardware Colour: Pearloid
- Tuners: Pearloid Open Gear
- Truss Rod: None
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