Harley Benton UK-11C Brown

Hyvä soitin ... jos ottaa hinnan huomioon niin sitten erittäin hyvä.
Väri on vähän outo mattapintainen ruskea, ja sitten kun se kosketuskohdista alkoi kiiltämään, niin sitten vielä oudompi :-D
Mutta se soi, ja se on ainakin minulle tärkeintä.
Virityskoneisto on hämmästyttävän hyvä ... ehkä paras mitä minun ukuleleissäni on ... ja niitä on 12 kpl.
Vaihdoin siihen Aquilan U31 kielet ja sen jälkeen se suorastaan hurmasi minut.
Soittokuntoon saattaminen tapahtui nopeasti, vain kielten lasku kielisatulassa ... oli kohtuullinen ennen laskemistakin.
Edes nauhojen päitä ei tarvinnut viimeistellä, kuten eräässä 5 kertaa kalliimmassa ukulelessä, jossa ne tarttuivat sormiin kiinni.
Jos kauneus ei ole ykkösasia, niin tämä on erittäin hyvä soitin ... halvalla.

This Harley Benton concert ukulele is a good instrument for its price range. Though the sound is good and feels solidly built when I have played it, it may not hold for rougher handling/touring or outdoor playing for a prolonged timespan. For me, it seems more fit for indoor playing, although I have not tested it in other conditions.

The body of the ukulele feels sturdy and it plays in tune, but the wood feels slightly unpolished and rough. This however does not seem to impact the tone and sound. The frets sticks out a tiny bit from the fingerboard, but this does not impact playing like it would have on a guitar, because the side of your index finger does not touch the fingerboard when playing ukulele. The tuning pegs also feels sturdy and hold the tuning reasonably well, even after the first tuning, although may go off tuning with big temperature changes.

This ukulele seems to project more than a regular ukulele, but not overly so. The sound is strong, the timbre is maybe somewhat darker than a normal ukulele, but the differance is minimal. The strings that come with does however seem flimsy, so they might need changing after some time of playing, maybe a year or two. Strings in a stronger material would probably make the instrument speak more, but if you prefer a more soft and mellow tone the original strings will work, as they seem to be in a softer material.

All-in-all it is a good intrument in its price range, and a good pick for your first ukulele and for the home studio, but perhaps not for professional touring gigs.