Luna High Tide Tenor 8 String Electro Acoustic Ukulele, Mahogany - Nearly New

Full Description

Mahogany Construction

The High Tide Tenor features a body crafted entirely from mahogany, which produces a rich and classic ukulele voice. Mahogany produces a focused, punchy, woody sound that is able to handle numerous styles of play and techniques with ease. Its mahogany body also offers more volume, and a strong balance between high-end and bass, which enables this uke to retain authentic ukulele tone. Mahogany is used a lot in the acoustic world, because it is relatively economical, durable, attractive, easy to work with, and resonant.

Tenor Cutaway Body

The High Tide Tenor features a tenor cutaway body shape, which provides a comfortable playing experience and offers easy access to upper frets. The tenor ukulele is bigger than both the concert and soprano shaped ukes, offering a slightly deeper tone and great projection. The High Tide delivers better projection than its smaller sized family members and is favoured for its warm tonal character.

On-Board Luna Preamp

The High Tide comes equipped with Luna's own preamp which provides basic sound tweaking for live and rehearsal environments. Its built-in preamp features slider controls for volume, bass and treble, making it ideal for the gigging ukulele player. Simply plug-in to a P.A system or amplifier and listen to you High Tide's acoustic tone come alive with the option for basic tone shaping, making the sound personal to the player.

Luna History

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 created Luna guitars, a line of guitars 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, she then applied the same techniques as she did with her award winning stained glass work to her new line of guitars. 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. Yvonne's design expertise has led so many men to respond to Luna's well-crafted, spirit-engaging instruments that the company now creates guitars for both female and male musicians of all ages.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Body Shape: Tenor Cutaway
• Top Material: Mahogany
• Body Material: Mahogany
• Bridge: Walnut
• Finish: Satin Natural
• Colour: Natural
• Design Feature: Abalone Rosette & High Tide Inlays

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Walnut
• Neck Finish: Satin Natural
• Number of Frets: 19
• Nut: Graphite (OEM)
• Nut Width: 29 mm
• Fingerboard Inlays: Abalone High Tide
• Scale Length: 432 mm
• Neck Shape: Set Neck C

Hardware & Electronics

• Hardware Colour: Chrome
• Tuning Machines: Open Gear
• Preamp: Luna
• Preamp Controls: Volume/Bass/Treble