Chris Perkins All Solid Spruce/Bog Oak 18 inch scale Baritone/Tenor Ukulele #WB3

What an absolutely stunning instrument from Chris Perkins this is. Designed with an 18 inch scale, so it can be tuned either Baritone DGBE or Tenor GCEA successfully, this Baritone/Tenor hybrid has tone, class and presence that puts it in the world class bracket. 

The wide 38mm nut makes this an absolute doddle to play, and the neck feels very comfortable and intuitive, certainly in my hands. But, the way it looks and feels is completely blown away by the sound that this beauty makes. The Spruce top is such a powerful sound engine, giving huge expressive range, clarity to all styles of playing and sustain for days. The 5000 year old Bog Oak on the back and sides not only looks stunning, but really helps to focus the sound and give it real definition and punch. What a bit of kit this is :-)

This is strung Low GCEA at the moment, but you can change this to DBGE without trading anything in terms of feel or sound. So many players are asking for baritones tuned like tenors and tenors tuned like baritones at the moment, and they always feel like a bit of a compromise. With this hybrid, you need not make any compromises at all. In Tenor tuning, the string tension is slightly tighter than normal, but not so that it would throw anyone off their stride, but this adds significantly to the volume and projection of the instrument. You do get a vastly richer and more resonant sound than you do with a standard Tenor bodied uke, with greater complexity in the sound.

Strung as a Baritone in DGBE, the strings will feel a little easier under the fingers than a standard Baritone, and you find yourself lost in deep dark depths of velvety sonorous rumblings. Sadly, you do have to change the strings to switch between the two tunings, but really this is one of only a handful of options available now where you can successfully tune it either way without stressing the instrument.

Spec:

Solid AAA Swiss Spruce top
Solid 5000 year old Bog Oak back and sides (from the Lincolnshire Fells, carbon dated)
18 inch hybrid Baritone/Tenor scale length
19 frets total, 14 to body
Rocklite Sundari (faux Rosewood) binding to body
Macassar Ebony soundhole rosette
Ebony bridge pins with Abalone dots
Bone saddle and nut
38mm nut width
Bolt-on Brazilian Cedar neck
Ancient Bog Oak fretboard and bridge
Titanium alloy fretboard markers
Ebony headstock veneer
Gotoh UPT Planetary tuners
Worth CT strings, with Fremont Squeakless Low G (currently tuned GCEA)
Open pore, Satin finish
TGI ABS case included
Serial no: WB3