Audio/Video files of different sizes, models & woods
The woods listed down the left column are generally in order of warmest (koa) to brightest (all-maple).
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Concert |
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Tenor |
6-String |
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Baritone |
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Myrtle |
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Cherry/Spruce |
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Here's a great video done by Aaron Keim that compares the tone of 5 Mya-Moe Tenor ukuleles:
And here are the 5 wav files (recorded with a Zoom H4 recorder into Audacity. No effects, EQ or extra gain was used):
And, here's a video comparing 4 different sizes of all-Myrtle instruments:


