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This concert ukulele features a mahogany body, geared tuners, bound mahogany neck, and a beautiful sound at an affordable price. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality.
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These satin finish mahogany ukuleles offer a lively full body that resonates with sparkling highs and warm lows--an affordable instrument to make you fall in love with playing a ukulele.
An affordable instrument to make you fall in love with playing a ukulele.
Ebony bridge.
Geared chrome tuners.
The OU2 Concert Ukulele
The OU2 concert ukulele features a mahogany top, back and sides, along with a bound mahogany neck. Geared chrome tuners and the ebony bridge keep your tuning in check. The satin finish shows off the wood grain--why ruin a beautiful thing?
Each ukulele is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality.
Oscar Schmidt instruments feature a lifetime warranty.
About Oscar Schmidt Musical Instruments
The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps.
The company prospered through the early 1920s. Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed. Salesmen distributed the products far and wide, making them available in general, small town furniture and dry goods stores. Country guitar pickers and blues musicians living in areas of the South and in Appalachia, far from the city, frequently played Oscar Schmidt instruments because they were both inexpensive and available locally. But equally important, they were often chosen solely on merits of their superior tone and volume.
Today at Oscar Schmidt, premium woods, quality hardware and modest prices create an ideal instrument. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality. Unequalled standards in easy playing comfort and tone response creates the perfect value... Oscar Schmidt.
What's in the Box
Oscar Schmidt OU2 Concert Ukulele
Emi
Reviewed in Australia on March 22, 2018
This is the first ukulele I bought. I did some research and this one seemed to be the one that had the most positive reviews in my price range from professionals.I LOVE IT! It looks beautiful, feels a lot sturdier than a lot of the cheaper ones.I can't wait to start learning how to play.
Jackie
Reviewed in Canada on June 26, 2017
I LOVE my ukulele! My daughter plays a soprano ukulele as well as guitar. I did my research and concert uke really is the perfect size for an adult beginner like me.
Story Fanatic
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 9, 2012
I bought this along with the "" book. (The book includes a CD of music used in the lessons and for an absolute begnniner seems to be an excellent starting point so far - only slight disappointment in the book was the coffee-stained back cover and page edges, but I'm not going to bother getting it swapped as it is only minor). I went for this concert model Uke as I have fairly thick fingers and wanted a little more room on the frets (it's still a tight squeeze for me on E and D chords, but this will hopefully improve as my fingers learn their positioning).Also wanted what would hopefully be a slightly better quality instrument, but without breaking the bank at the same time. I think this qualifies, although I've nothing to compare it to! It's actually manufactured in Indonesia (says hand-crafted). The reference to a USA technician may still be true, in which case it has travelled a long way already (to Edinburgh as I'm visiting family).Arrived well (if simply) packaged in its own specific cardboard box with a sleeve/bag of thin packing foam (like you normally get on the front of a new TV or PC monitor). Amazon had then put this inside another of their own branded boxes plus air-bladder packs, as this outer box also held the book mentioned above.All arrived dry despite the wettest week on record for July in the UK.As expected, the Uke required tuning after unpacking, and retuned each day so far (it comes with GHS brand strings fitted). Time will tell if these settle well, but when tuned it has a lovely sweet tone.I have now got to get past the sore finger-tips with the practicing!
テルテル
Reviewed in Japan on November 25, 2012
４０年も前にウクレレをさわったことがありました。一念発起して再びウクレレを始めることになりました。オカリナの伴奏のためです。購入するにあたり、選んだのがＯＵ２でした。購入した価格以上の楽器でした。音も大きく、音の狂いもなく、軽くて持ちやすく、デザインも抜群です。初心者が選んでも間違いない一台であるばかりか、長く用いることができると思います。
Joe
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2011
My friend told me that I should looking for a better ukulele that the cheaper ones. That are good but sometimes you have the feeling that they are a toy. Well, this Uke isn't a toy, it is a perfect instrument with nice and good details. If you have a good instrument for the beginning you will learn as a musician because you are taking your learning class or your fun playing, seriously.I like the rough touch of the wood without varnish as well. I bought aquila strings because experts say that improve the sound, but you know what, the sound is quite good at the moment with the black standard strings, so I decided wait until I'll change the strings.
karis_1976
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2010
Something has to be over the moon for me to give 5 stars, but I would have given 4.5 if I could have.First, I've played guitar for years (going on decades), and while I'm not phenomenal, I know good tone and good playability, and this Uke is pretty damn good. It's nice, relaxed, got a sweet tone, and having tried many others at comparable and above levels, I have to say this is among the best I've come across.How did I choose this? I've wanted a uke for some time, and trusted this because a) I know an Indie musician (Bess Rogers - check her out) who is amazing musically, but indie (thus not rich), who I'm pretty sure had this same uke (she recently upgraded from it) and I figured she'd know the best in "low" end and b) because I tried a friend's and loved it (before realizing it was the same as the indie musician's). In the end, for $50, I'm not sure you can get better. I know the default action setting is hit and miss. Mine was a hit, which I am grateful for. And I just bought some Aquila strings off ebay. The ones I currently have do go out of tune pretty quickly, and I think by now they should be pretty stretched. So this might be a miss, but I'm ok with it.If you want to get better, I suggest you go for the OU5. It's highly recommended. I just have hit my spending limit on these things for now. Maybe in 10 years.PS - UKES = SO. MUCH. FUN!!!Edited a week later to add it now stays in tune much better, so I was wrong about how long it would take for the strings to stretch. Haven't put on a set of aquila strings yet, but this uke is pretty amazing. For those who complain about the tuning, I have to wonder if they understand the science of strings.
Melissa C. Navarro
Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2010
I'm a college student who took piano classes as a kid and wanted to get back into music. This is a great way to do it! With all the resources available to help tune and teach you how to play (thank goodness for YouTube) having a great uke to play with just tops it all off. As one of the leading brands of ukuleles, I was pleased to see the great quality and simple craftsmanship handle a beginner's mindless pluckings. It doesn't go out of tune too easily and I found it to have a great sound. Take it from a person who has bought one too many toy souvenir ukes.If you want to take up a fun, easy and rewarding hobby, I'd suggest buying this product! Definitely worth the money.
Jeremy D
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2008
Just for a little background, I've been playing the guitar for about 7 years. If you're also a guitar player and wondering how a ukulele plays, it's easy. Just take your guitar, put a capo on the 5th fret, take away your top two strings, and voila! You have a ukulele. I have never picked up a ukulele in my life, but after seeing several friends having so much fun with this instrument, I thought I'd give it a try.This Oscar Schmidt OU2 Ukulele is the most popular (and one of the cheapest) here on amazon.com. From other reviews, it seems as if there are two types of colors you can get: a light or a dark finish. Unfortunately, you don't have the option to choose. Either way, this is a mighty fine instrument for anyone who's never played the ukulele before.Pros- The biggest pro with this ukulele is easy. The value! This ukulele is not some cheap toy you buy at Toys'R'Us. For the price that you pay for, you get a solid-sounding uke and it won't rip a hole in your wallet. The sound is bright and clear, but I do recommend getting better strings. Contrary to other reviews, the action on this ukulele seems great to me. Playing and switching between chords seem very smooth and I haven't had the annoying 'fret buzzing' happen. The tuning pegs are solid and easy to turn. It has the appearance of a quality uke. The finish isn't spectacular close up, but who's going to be looking at it that close anyways?Cons- After a few days of playing, the strings still seem to easily get out of tune. Of course, its expected because most stringed instruments are like that at first. After one week of playing, it's holding up somewhat well. Another thing (which in part is my fault, I should have researched a bit more) is that this is a very small ukulele! Supposedly, this is a tenor-sized uke, which is the smallest of all the different sizes. If you're a guitar player with big hands, playing this uke might be a pain and so you might be better of with a baritone-sized uke. And finally, I assumed they would include a little bag for the ukulele, but there isn't. Although it's small and cheap, I thought it would have been nice to include one :DMy recommendation is to buy this ukulele if you're a first-timer like me. You will love it within minutes! So hurry and drop a few bucks, this ukulele will bring a smile to everyone who hears it!*4.5 out of 5 stars*
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