The Ovation Applause UAE-20 in ‘honey’ was my first uke purchase. Still, this won’t keep me from using this instrument when I play live!īy Todd Baio – Folk Musician & Ukulele Evangelist Applause UA-10 Soprano Ukulele Review The sound holes are actually on the sides of the instrument and there are two woody “leaf-like” designs in this area. The Negatives: this is purely subjective, but the aesthetics for the ukulele top don’t quite do it for me. The instrument also feels like it is a solid and well-made little unit. I also love the neck and the rounded composite back to the instrument (characteristic of all ovation/applause acoustic instruments). It has a very bright/crisp tone, it projects well, and it comes with a decent pickup so you can just plug it in instead of putting a microphone in front of it. That is, I love it when it is tuned to A, D, F#, B tuning, I tried wrapping the strings a bit tighter when I re-strung the instrument, but still, it sounded and felt a bit to “mushy” for me. The Positives: I love the sound of this little uke. If you’re in the states, it doesn’t hurt to research Musician’s Friend as they go for about a 140.00 dollars through these two retailers. They usually list for between 150.00 to 200.00 American dollars. I was fortunate enough to catch a classified ad and pick up the ukulele, a small practice amp, a gig bag, and a digital tuner for just over a hundred dollars. I purchased an applause soprano ukulele just a couple of months ago. Kaki King playing a Tenor Applause which seems to play well despite her little water spillage incident. It also features a solid spruce top on its rounded Lyrachord body. The UAE20 Ukulele is soprano size with a multi-soundhole design borrowed from Ovation guitars. Price: $129.99Īpplause UAE20 Acoustic-Electric Deluxe Soprano Ukulele Adamas Red/Black Satin The UA10 is a soprano uke with traditional, single sound hole body style and a solid spruce top. They can be played either plugged or unplugged. As well as the distinctive look, they sound good and are well made. Looks wise, they are very distinctive and look similar to the Applause guitars (made popular recently by Kaki King who also plays a tenor Applause ukulele). Sopranos with central sound hole were introduced again in 2016 in natural kos or black finishes.įor a while the model numbers at the end was usually a two character designation for the finish, so for example 5E means the black finish or A8 the Adamas blue This can also refer to the wood type of the soundboard if the instrument is uncoloured.Ovation Applause ukuleles are the most popular brand of electric ukulele around. I have never seen a Baritone model though and in 2014 all models were taken out of production. I have seen Soprano, Concert and Tenor models on sale but not all of them are available everywhere, (the Concerts for example I have only seen on sale in Japan and the Tenors not on sale in Europe?). They all have the distinctive headstock shape and the composite round back but some models have a traditional central large sound hole and some have the classic Ovation multiple small epaulette sound holes I have even seen a special limited edition koa model the epaulettes in the shape of a palm tree. It was used to brand Ukulele models in the mid 2000'sĪlso used as branding by Ovation for their very top end US products - I have not seen Ukuleles directly branded as Adamas but I have seen the name used in describing a number of the Ukulele colour schemes The other all far eastern made brand in Ovations line up and is made in Korea and Indonesia. ( aNueNue like to claim that their U900 range is the most counterfeited Ukulele in the world but there are far more counterfeit Applause UA 20s out there) All of the Ovation Ukuleles I have seen on sale since 2010 have been branded Applause by Ovation. Ovations budget range, (but still quite expensive), and are made in China. Ovations head office is in Hartford, USA and I believe some of the Ovation Guitars are still made in the USA. Charles Karman started out as an aerospace engineer but in 1965 he put his knowledge (and company resources) into making a scientifically better acoustic guitar and in 1966 the roundback composite Ovation was born.
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