Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed.
The company prospered through the early 1920s. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps®. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. This diverse offering promises to resonate all of the island colors. We respectfully submit our Oscar Schmidt Ukuleles, whose collection of voices are crafted of bodies, tops, fret boards and bridges offered in an array of artisan woods, with mother of pearl or abalone inlays and featuring Aquila or GHS strings. Mahalo, Hawai'i, for uniting the planet with the melody of your Aloha Spirit. If we don't stock what you are looking for, we can get any other model you would like very quickly. For the money, between $70 – $90, I think you’ll be happy with this acoustic uke.Blues City Music is a proud stocking dealer of Oscar-Schmidt Tenor and Baritone Ukuleles as well as Tenor and Baritone soft gig bags and hard shell cases. The scale length is 15″ (7.5″ from nut to 12th fret). From the frets to the bottom of strings it is 2/32″ at the 5th fret and 3/32″ at the 12th fret. The action on the one I got was just right. The strings stretch like crazy for the first week or so, but once they settle in the tuning is stable. The string spread at the saddle is about 3/8″ wider than most ukes, so solo finger playing is easier. The uke now has great tone and playability. So I replaced them with a set of Aquila Nylgut concert ukulele strings (AQUILA 7U CONCERT w/High G – $4.85 – ) and also now use the new Nylgut Low G (AQUILA 71U SINGLE STRING – RED SERIES, CONCERT – $1.25 Tough on the fingers and a “tinny tone” to them. I had my local music shop order it for me. The pickup is really great, I can plug into my computer and record or an amp and get some distortion, and if you’re looking for an acoustic electric ukulele this one’s really hard to beat!Ĭoncerning the Oscar Schmidt OU2P Concert Pineapple uke. Other than that though this ukulele is really incredible! It’s been a lot of fun, I borrowed a friend’s awhile ago (the same model) and decided to get one. It’s because there’s a tie that holds the wires secure inside the instrument but there’s a length of wire that still touches the wood and it causes that sound. Another reviewer said theirs developed an annoying fret buzz, and I had that problem when I first got mine, but I unscrewed the 1/4 jack at the bottom and turned it 180 degrees so the wire wasn’t touching the wood on the front of the instrument and the buzz stopped completely. The ukulele is mahogany and it has a really well put together and finished look, it’s surprisingly well built for being under $100 and acoustic electric.
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It has a really full sound and it’s loud enough for any application. I have a Oscar Schmidt OU2E and it sounds incredible. I have been playing for only five months and already can’t get her out of my head, hands and heart. I recommend this model for any first timer (like myself) who has larger hands. She’s a sweet little honey colored concert Uke named ‘Plinky’. OU53S Baritone Ukulele: $179 Oscar Schmidt OU-2 Ukulele Review On VideoĮlliott Brood give their Oscar Schmidt ukuleles a good bashing on The Valley Town. If that isn’t enough to convince you, here’s the World’s richest man, Warren Buffett, playing an Oscar Schmidt.
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Oscar Schmidt ukuleles got a bit of TV exposure and a big boost in popularity thanks to Jason Castro using an Oscar Schmidt OU5 for his performance of Somewhere Over the Rainbow on American Idol. I’ve recommended it to a few people as a great first uke. The action is low and the intonation is very good. Having said that, it still makes a good sound and is the easiest to play of all my ukuleles. When I say ‘koa’ it is, of course, laminated rather than solid (meaning there’s a thin layer of koa wood on top of cheaper wood underneath). If that’s the case, then I can highly recommend it. I have an Ashbury Concert Koa uke which is exactly the same as the Oscar Schmidt Concert OU5 (it’s simply branded differently for sale in the UK).
Oscar Schmidt ukes tend to be at the cheaper end of the price scale but have a good reputation for quality. They started out as the ‘folk instrument’ wing of Washburn and seem to focus on Autoharps more than ukuleles. Oscar Schmidt are an offshoot of the Washburn guitar company.
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