AnueNue UCS10-BB Black Beauty Solid Spruce Top Soprano Ukulele w/Gigbag

The aNueNue UCS10 soprano is a must have ukulele for any beginner. The affordable solid top soprano ukulele benefits from aNueNue's famous build quality and still retains all the quirkiness of something at the high end like the Lion. It's the uke for all of those people out there that love the idea of the Enya Nova-U but want something made of wood and not plastic. We are completely on board with these - they play great and sound special. A real game changer in a flooded ukulele market already swimming in good quality beginner instruments.

The UCS10 Black Beauty soprano ukulele has a solid spruce top and laminate mahogany back and sides. The finish is satin and the top is a true black colour. The spruce top behaves like a spruce top should, this lovely uke has lots of volume and clarity and would really suit any style you want to throw at it.

This particular soprano has the classic combination of rosewood on the fingerboard and bridge which is a little bit more conventional than some of the maple models. We noted as well that on all 6 of our first sample models; the bridge looked to be angled slightly downwards at the bass end but as the intonation is extremely good and the placement is consistent across all of them, we are concluding that this is a deliberate build choice from aNueNue.

The ukulele comes with a lovely woven tweed style soprano gigbag made by aNueNue and you will have no doubt noticed that the top has a scratchplate that looks very similar to the gigbag material but is slightly smoother to the touch.

Finally, despite the instrument's quirky and trendy aesthetics - it has quite a mature feel to it with a nice modern round neck and a standard 35mm nut width.

Specification:
Solid spruce top
Pantone 'Black Beauty' black top
Laminate mahogany back and sides
Soprano size
35mm nut width
Rosewood fingerboard and bridge
Geared open back machineheads
Scratchplate
Padded gigbag included

Note about the pickguard:
A couple of customers have fed back to us that the corner of the pickguard fabric is often not glued down fully, peeling away slightly. The area in question at the corner of the pickguard is always quite small and we have not yet had anyone report the peeling ever gets any worse.

aNueNue themselves have confirmed that the pickguard is designed to be quite easy to remove if customers find it becomes a nuisance.