Kala Koa Tenor ukulele KA-KTGE-C Electric

KA-KTGE-C
Koa Wood Acoustic / Electric Tenor Ukulele
with Cutaway. RRP $495

Hawaiian Koa Gloss Series
This elegant hardwood is a highly revered Hawaiian native, the most classic of woods to build
a ukulele. The wood becomes multidimensional as light reflects in it, and the tone resonates
through history. This is the most traditional of ukulele, a timeless masterpiece.

You will enjoy playing your Koa Kala for a lifetime!

The Kala KA-KTGE-C Hawaiian Koa Tenor Cutaway Acoustic Electric has a Hawaiian Koa top, back, and sides and a mahogany neck.  This combination of tonewoods deliver a tone that is bright, yet not ever shrill with some nice bottom end warmth.  Koa also has very good projection and volume.

The body features maple binding on the edges of the body really setting off the Koa wood pattern and the well applied and polished gloss finish.

As normal with all my ukulele sales a setup is included and you will enjoy the low action and the ease of playability.

The Kala KA-KTGE-C ukulele can be amplified because its factory fitted Kala UK-300TR EQ with built in Chromatic Tuner.

Tuning duties is handled by a set of upmarket Gold Grover open-gear tuning machines

SPECIFICATIONS
Body size: Tenor
Top: Hawaiian koa
Back and sides: Hawiian koa
Trim: Maple with white and black accents
Headstock: Slotted with laser-etched mother-of-pearl inlay
Neck: Mahogany
Fingerboard material: rosewood
Fingermarkers: White dots
Side markers: Black dots
Bridge: Rosewood
Tuners: Gold Grover open gear
Nut: Graph Tech NuBone
Saddle: Graph Tech NuBone
Strings: Premium D'Addario Titanium
Finish: Gloss
Kala UK-300-TR (active system)
Features : 2-band EQ with chromatic LED tuner

Guide to Ukulele Tone Woods; Mahogany Versus Cedar Vs Rosewood Vs Koa Vs Spruce Vs Ovankol

Many factors contribute to the tone of your Ukulele.

The choice of strings and the size (Soprano / Concert / Tenor) are probably the most obvious.

Design factors in construction, play their part also.  Such design choices as the placing of the internal braces and type of kerfing employed can mean the difference between a uke that sings and one that, well, just 'plonks'

Visually the most obvious differences in ukuleles is the woods used in construction.

Woods are chosen for their Tonal Characteristics as much as their looks, perhaps even more so.

Kala Brand Ukuleles has produced this handy guide to Woods and the tonal properties they exhibit.

Some final words of advice ... Use Your Ears! We are all different, and much like taste in Artwork or Food we all have our own ideas of what is 'Good'.

Some people perceive a Bright Crisp Ukulele as Shrillness or Thinness, others perceive a ukulele with a big bottom end bass tone as 'Dull".

"Horses for Courses" as they say