B-stock L.Luthier Le Koa S Electro Tenor Ukulele Solid Spruce/Formosan Koa in gigbag

When you look at the Le Koa S tenor ukulele from L. Luthier, you can't help but be impressed with the quality for the price! I'm scratching my head here trying to remember when I had to describe such a good value for money ukulele.

L.Luthier are a Malaysian brand, which manufactures their instruments in China, but, think aNueNue Moonbird build quality and finish, for literally half the price!

This tenor ukulele, the Le Koa S, is made of top quality woods. It features a nice tight and straight grained solid spruce top, and solid Formosan koa (Pacific Islands Acacia) on the back and sides. The two woods combine to make a very good sound indeed. The spruce gives real depth and presence over the whole frequency range, with a crisp attack and lovely long decay, even up at the dusty end.

Strumming sounds just how you would want, with good note definition in chords and pretty harmonics in that nice decay, and picked passages sound lively and well defined, with plenty of volume on offer with very little effort. The intonation is really very good indeed, and will allow playing accurately in any position.

The choice of woods on this electro tenor only really goes so far towards the performance of any instrument. It would have been easy for this uke to be overbuilt and quiet, but it is the opposite. We were attracted first to the looks, but then fell in love with the feel, playability and the sound on these instruments. A lot of credit has to go to the builders and designers at L.Luthier, who have made a brilliant instrument, which has both style and substance.

The pickup system is extremely capable too. With any piezo/mic blend system, you will find that mixing in too much of the mic can lead to distortion, but mix in around 1/3 and it adds a depth and realism to your sound which is just gorgeous.

Highly recommended! Pictures show actual instrument you will receive.

This one was returned to us by a customer as it had a buzz when it arrived. We tracked down the source of the buzz to the jack socket assembly, which must have come loose in transit. We have rebuilt the jack socket nice and tight, and it plays very well now with no buzzing at all. The original customer had a polished wound low G string and a heel joint strap button fitted. It sounds wonderful with the low G!

Specification:
Solid European spruce top
Solid Formosan koa back and sides (Pacific Islands acacia)
Mahogany neck
Ebony fretboard
Rosewood bridge
Bone nut and saddle
Dre Jung DJ326UAB-D6 open back aged look tuners
20 frets
Savarez 150R clear fluorocarbon strings with polished wound low G fitted
37mm nut width with 28mm G to A string spacing
431mm scale length
Flamed maple binding
High gloss finish
Satin finish to neck
Premium L.Luthier gig bag
LU active pickup with condenser mic/piezo blend
255mm across bottom bout
74mm body depth
Strap button on side of heel joint on neck