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| | Features | Soprano SizeLimited Lifetime WarrntyEasy PlayabliltyHas 12 Frets
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| | Description | This is where it all begins - classic design and beautiful wood with attention to detail. All this at a price that will make you smile. The Lanikai LU-21 Standard Ukulele is built with nato back, sides and top and a 12 fret rosewood fretboard. This standard sized ukulele features geared tuning machines with a white body binding. | |
| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 21.0 inches | | Product Width: | 6.63 inches | | Product Height: | 2.38 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.9 pounds | | Package Length: | 22.0 inches | | Package Width: | 7.5 inches | | Package Height: | 3.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 151 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 151 customer reviews )
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80 of 83 found the following review helpful:
Great starter Jun 15, 2009
By koba22
"koba22"
Experienced ukulele players like to bag on the Lanikai, but it's been a great starter ukulele for me. The stock strings (aquila) have excellent play and once you get past the initial couple of days, hold it in tune very well.
It has a classic ukulele sound, but does have a full textured sound (it doesn't sound like a tinny toy).
This is a production model, so there won't be much of a sense of individuality. Every Lanikai LU-21 is the same, and since the solid wood top is made from a wood that lacks much grain, that sense is increased (you better put your name on it if you know you're going to be around other beginners).
The one thing that I don't like much is the tuning pegs. There's a bit of play in them which can get wearisome when you're close to being tuned but are making some fine adjustments.
51 of 52 found the following review helpful:
 Wonderful. Aug 13, 2009
By rogelyosep
I was skeptical on what ukulele I should get as my first, and I consulted plenty of things: uke owners, reviews and various other things. After plenty of searching, I came to the conclusion of getting this one because it was recommended by uke owners and its reviews were good. It was definitely a good choice. The strings are great, but in the beginning it takes a bit to get the strings to stay in tune. It's such a wonderful tone, and the size is just about right. If you're getting your first uke, I recommend this one.
38 of 41 found the following review helpful:
Amazing Soprano Uke Apr 18, 2009
By Scott Kitchen
After spending two days using a brandless ukulele from a music store, this little baby came in the mail, much to my delight. With Aquila strings, low action, and beautiful craftsmanship, the quality of this product is apparent before even the first strum.
If you're looking to start playing ukulele or are switching from a larger uke, this is the way to go. Love this uke!
24 of 26 found the following review helpful:
Great sounding instrument for kids and adults alike! Dec 24, 2009
By Professor Challenger
"The Ideator"
I'm a guitar, piano and bass player, as well a private music teacher. I also received formal training in guitar-building and have been commissioned to build instruments for amateur and professional musicians.
I ordered this ukelele on the strength of the reviews here at Amazon, and I was pleased with this instrument when it arrived. I was really surprised at how loud this particular instrument is for its size. It's only about 19" long (approximately) with nylon strings, but it really puts out a strong volume and really nice tone. It has geared tuners, not peg-style tuners that seem to go out of tune easily.
Although I've never played ukelele, I was able to play songs like Brown Eyed Girl, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, and Do You Wanna Dance in about a 1/2 hour using the chord book that comes with the book. I did this drawing on my guitar-playing knowledge.
Also, my daughter, who is a piano player and 11 years old, picked up the ukelele. In about 15 minutes was able to play Row Row Row Your Boat, which is in the instruction booklet which comes with the uke. I see this as a good buy for beginners and a good starter instrument for young children who might like to move over to guitar eventually.
Two concerns though -- mine came with a couple small dents in the back of the ukelele -- nothing major, but I could see them -- looks like someone hit it on something. Also, most stringed instruments go out of tune for a short while after you put new strings on them. This one wouldn't stay in tune for more than one song when I started playing with it. I yanked on the strings to stretch them, kept retuning it and playing it, and it would still go out of tune. This is improving, and I'm trusting the reviews here that say it goes out of tune "at first". I'm expecting the tuning problem to disappear as the strings get stretched and the windings around the tuners tighten out any slack.
[note: Two days later, after about 8 hours of playing the instrument is staying in tune better and better; I expect the problem to correct itself as the string get stretched]
The little 5-page booklet has basic chords and songs-- Row Row Row Your Boat, Are You Sleeping, He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Amazing Grace, and When Irish Eyes are Smiling. There was also a blurb about a famous ukelele player who authored the pamphlet on how to play the Ukelele and is the founding member of Louisville Ukelele Association Unlimited (LUAU!)-- a ukelele band.
Overall, I'm happy with this ukelele, and fully expect the tuning problem to go away with use.
18 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Qaulity control poor. 2 out of 3 bad. Stay away from this model.. Jun 03, 2011
By Consumer
"flymach1"
I received two of these. One plays well and sounds great. The other has a string that pops out of place (nut groove not deep enough and or neck out of alignment), it has a tinny sound compared to the other, when the two are placed back to back this one's neck is off center by about a quarter of an inch, there is a cut in the white binding on the back near the neck, and the fretboard has a finish with some cosmetic flaws.
It's hard to say if LU-21's are good or bad. If I only ordered one and it was the good one that showed up, I'd be happy. If I only got the bad one, I'd never give a Lanikai a second consideration. As it stands, I hope to get a replacement shipped and end up with two good ones. I really wonder about the factory tolerances when there is such a difference between two supposedly identical items.
Is a Lanikai LU-21 any good? - I guess it depends on your luck of the draw.
EDIT - It's pretty clear to me these things are mass produced junk with poor quality control and manufacturing tolerances. I received my third one today. It's a piece of crap too. The G string won't stay in tune. It keeps going flat. Over a period of about three minutes, I made almost a full revolution of the tuning peg trying to chase the in tune G. I tried stretching the string, leaving it alone, and tuned it back over an over again. It keeps going flat within a minute. The fretboard is all dried out and has whitish smears on it. The frets stick out and grab my fingers when I try to move them down the neck. There are a couple of gouges that were filled in with a much darker putty before sanding the head. The back of the neck had a poor blend of the two pieces that were glued together to make it.
So, I have three LU-21's. One of them sounds good. The saddle on it is centered, and the neck is too. One of them sounds tinny, has an off center neck, and a nut that doesn't have deep enough grooves, and has a cut in the white binding on the back. The third one is dried out, has frets that could almost cut my hands, has lots of excess glue on some of the frets, sounds a little tinny, won't hold a G, and has several cosmetic blemishes.
One has a centered saddle, one has it off center to the left, and one is off center to the right. All three saddles are of different heights - a range of differences of about a quarter inch from the shortest to the tallest. Two are angled slightly backwards, and one is angled forward. The heel of one neck is almost a quarter of an inch longer than the other two.
Mahalo for nothing Lanakai!
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