Ohana

Ohana ukuleles, in soprano, concert, tenor and baritone.

Ohana builds across the full range, from mahogany laminate instruments suited to a classroom set through solid-top models and up to all-solid walnut with a slotted head. Chord shapes and tuning are the same across soprano, concert and tenor, so a player moving up a size relearns nothing, and only the baritone tunes differently.

Several models carry a pickup for amplified playing, including cutaways with a three-band EQ and thin-line bodies for players who want something closer to an electric.

The Cynthia Lin signature concert is built to the specification of the ukulele teacher and performer whose lesson videos a lot of students learn from.

Ohana also makes the instruments nobody else does. The O'Nina sopranissimo is smaller and higher than a soprano. The long-scale soprano gives soprano body tone with concert fret spacing. The closed-back tenor banjolele is a banjo body at ukulele tuning, much louder and sharper. The bongolele is a concert-scale ukulele built on a twin bongo body, and the shakerlele is a shaker in the shape of a ukulele.

DIY build kits in soprano and concert are stocked for building an instrument as a class project.