USED Aquila Short Bass One 14 Ukulele Bass Fretted w/gigbag

Please note that this used Aquila bass ukulele is available for purchase by UK customers only.

A ukulele bass like no other this lovely instrument from Aquila was designed to blend in with ukulele ensembles, in terms of the sound as well as the look, and to offer the player an instrument with greater precision of intonation, and also some acoustic volume so that it might be played unplugged.

The acoustic sound, whilst far from ear shatteringly loud, is very pleasant and is easily loud enough to play alongside one lead ukulele acoustically. Plugged in, it sounds beautiful, with a very full, woody sound which has the beating of a lot of other bass ukulele type instruments. Cedar is such a lovely wood to use on the top of a bass instrument like this, it suits it perfectly. Bass players will find the longer scale length much more intuitive, and will not suffer so much from spreading their fingers over the frets like on shorter scale models.

The Aquila red bass ukulele strings are very clever things as well. They feel great under the fingers, owing to two things: they are tauter than other similar strings, so have greater sustain and volume, and are thinner as well, so they intonate better and do not roll as much under the fingers.

This used model is in fair condition, it has certainly been played as you can see from the wear and play marks around the sound hole as pictured, but as well as it's been played it has also been looked after. Shipped in its original gigbag and with a spare set of like for like strings, this is the sought after 14 fret version of the short bass, and likely to be one of the only ones you'll ever see up for sale.

Specification:
64 cm scale length
21 fret markers, 14 frets distance to the body
Twin transducer pickups mounted internally
Solid cedar top
Laminate sapele back and sides
Abalone rosette
Rosewood fretboard and bridge
Mother of pearl logo
Red series Aquila short bass strings
Endpin jack socket in chrome
ShortBass gigbag