Size: Concert

Number of Strings: 4

           This is a ukulele which I made special for the museum show “The Evolution of the Ukulele”. This show is currently running at the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art from August the 2nd until October 21st 2007. The show hosts an outstanding collection of about fifty old Hawaiian and mainland instruments as well as about thirty instruments by modern ukulele builders. Curated by Stephen Becker this is a well thought out and put together show displaying the evolution of our favorite instrument. For more information on the show look on the web at www.mocfa.org.
          I took some liberty in naming this instrument as the San Francisco Ukulele Exposition isn’t really the name of our show but I wanted to tie into the past with this instrument. I wanted to mirror somewhat the 1915 Pan-Pacific Exposition which took place in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park where many people on the mainland were first introduced to the ukulele. Using a typefont found on posters from the 1915 Expo I inlaid this font into the peghead with small maple letters and followed it with a simple deco design which flows into a line (made of red dyed maple) running down the ebony fingerboard and bumping  into the horizontal mother of pearl fret-marker at the twelfth fret. Simple and elegant!
          To further tie this instrument into the San Francisco Ukulele Scene I incorporated a Golden Gate Bridge design into the bridge of the instrument. Some of the bridge is inlaid into the soundboard and some of it is part of the bridge. The saddle and nut are made of a red “Corian” material.
          All this goes onto what is another fabulous Pohaku Concert size ukulele.  The Curly Koa body is bound with a black/red edge binding (lots of red on this instrument). The neck is Honduran Mahogany and the fingerboard and bridge are black Ebony. The tuners are planetary geared ‘peg-head’ tuners which have a 4:1 gear ratio for smooth tuning with that old timey look. And as usual it sounds and plays like a great Pohaku Uke should!
          Note: Because this is in a museum show it is for sale but not available for pick-up until the end of October.
Price: sold

Interested? give us a call at 510-845-5055 or email us at peter@pohakuukulele.com