Traditional SECTOR SPOTLIGHT
Fender Ukulele Hau’oli RRP: £142.80
It’s named after the Hawaiian word for happiness, fact fans, and features scalloped fan bracing, an acrylic abalone rosette, black body binding and a 19-fret mahogany neck with a rosewood bridge.
Aria SB10 G RRP: £225
Made in China, it features a Remo top, mahogany resonator and neck, 19-fret rosewood fingerboard and bridge and chrome hardware.
Stentor Ozark 2240 Celtic model mandolin RRP: £358
Features a solid spruce top, solid mahogany back and sides, satin finish, mahogany neck, 20-fret rosewood fingerboard and rosewood bridge, Celtic knot sound-hole design, matching wooden fingerboard inlays and chrome machine heads with perloid buttons. It comes with a gig bag.
fret rosewood fingerboard and bridge and chrome hardware. Moving up through the range,
the SB20 has a Remo top, mahogany resonator and neck, 22- fret rosewood fingerboard, maple and ebony bridge, chrome hardware and is available in both five-string and tenor options at £369. The SB40 has the same features
as the SB20, but has a Remo clear top and is available in both five- string and tenor options for £489. The SB600 is top of the range with
a Remo clear top, sycamore resonator, maple neck, 22-fret rosewood fingerboard, maple/ebony/maple bridge and gold hardware at £599. Gremlin has just taken on the Irish-made Feadog whistles range, giving it what it believes is the largest range of whistles from any one distributor. The two best-selling brands are
Tony Dixon and Chieftain whistles. Dixon whistles encompass the
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starter and intermediate price points while Chieftain is at the top end. “Whistle players are never happy
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Brunswick ukeleles have a stained mahogany top, back and sides and high-quality geared machineheads.
with one whistle so you can sell the same person a multitude of whistles in different keys and makes,” says Gremlin director, Chris Rudd. Also available from Gremlin are Glenluce Celtic Instruments. Glenluce bodhrans start at £32 and go up to the seven-inch Deep Rim bodhran at £99. The Glenluce range includes a 22-string harp for £289, with a 29-string version for £399. The firm has new instruments
from Portugal. Antonio Carvalho features a Mandocello, Cavaquinho, Braguinha, Mandolin, Tenor Mandola, Portuguese Guitarras and a large-bodied bouzouki. It also stocks Blueridge guitars; Ashbury mandolins, autoharps and ukes; Blue Moon ukes, mandolins and bouzoukis; Headway pick-ups; Shubb capos; Waltons whistles and bodhrans; Artec amps; Katho cajons.
Vintage VRC800AMF RRP: £399
Ideal for anything from delicate fingerpicking to dirty bottleneck blues, it has a flame maple finish and body and a single coil pickup at the neck.
Vintage offers a range of open
and closed-back banjos, from the open-backed VOB12 (£175) to the luxurious closed-back VB30GDL (£379). Also in the range is a Ukulele Banjo, the VUB50 at £369. The range of Vintage Mandolins
from JHS includes the VFM300VSB for £459, the VFM400AVB at £459 and the VMT400VB for £429. The firm worked with guitar designer Paul Tebbutt to create new Pilgrim by Vintage banjos for 2011. The eight models feature tonewoods and premium hardware options. There are open and close-backed options, priced from £349 to £699. Laka by Vintage ukes are instruments for players of all levels. The VUS50 (£64.99) features an on- board tuner, and the range includes a number of electro-acoustic models that come fitted with Fishman preamps and on-board pickups. Vintage’s resonator guitars feature models with mahogany laminate
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