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Best Cheap Soprano Ukuleles (2023 Buyer’s Guide)
The ultimate guide to the best cheap soprano ukulele including instruments for all budgets and some brand new ukuleles from this year as well!
Best Soprano Ukuleles for Beginners (2023 Buyer’s Guide)
The ultimate guide to the best soprano ukuleles for beginners including instruments for all budgets and some brand new ukuleles from this year as well!
Best Ukulele Cases (2023 Buyer’s Guide)
These are the best ukulele cases and brands on the market today, for all budgets. Find the best hardshell, carbon fiber or soft case for you.
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Best Ukuleles Overall
In this buyer’s guide, you’ll find our list of the best ukuleles to purchase this year. We have done the research so you don’t have to! From budget options to professional instruments, we list all of the best on the market for all different budgets and playing styles.
Don’t miss this full guide to the best overall. For the best instruments of individual types, scroll down.
Soprano
The Soprano Ukulele is the most well-known and popular of the ukuleles. The Soprano sound is the epitome of what most people think of when they thing of Ukulele music.
In Hawaii, they call this ukulele the “Standard Size” because it’s almost exactly the same size as the instrument was when it was first invented.
The Soprano is the smallest ukulele body type and is therefore one of the easier instruments to play.
Tenor
The Tenor ukulele is one of the largest of the bunch. Measuring longer and wider than both the soprano and concert ukuleles, the Tenor has a more round, deeper and warmer sound, bringing it (and its size) closer to the acoustic guitar.
Still made with nylon strings, the Tenor Ukulele often has a low G and a high G which you don’t find on the smaller ukuleles.
Baritone
This ukulele is even larger than the tenor guitar, making it the closest size to an actual guitar.
The baritone definitely isn’t the best uke for beginners to start out with, but many people like the deep, warm sound that lacks the typical “ukulele twang”.
Because the frets are so large, this uke plays more like a guitar overall.
Specialty
There are plenty of custom-built, specialty ukuleles, but when we use the word “specialty” with the instrument, we’re generally talking about a hybrid instrument.
These include the Banjolele which is tuned like a uke but has a banjo body and a banjo sound, as well as Guitarleles which are tuned like a guitar, but sound a bit more like a ukulele.
Electric
An electric ukulele can be plugged into an amp so that you can take your ukulele sound to the next level, reverb it or play at gigs.
Electric ukuleles are a growing craze that help make an already fun instrument even more exciting to play and listen to.
Bass
Bass ukulele a mini acoustic bass guitar. The strings are fat nylon and the warm, deep tone of this uke is dreamy and charming.
Bass ukuleles are hard to come by and are slightly more expensive than standard ukes due to the construction and strings.
Concert
One up from the soprano, is the concert size. The concert ukulele is around an inch longer than a soprano, and the neck slightly wider.
It’s also a bit heavier. That added length allows for more frets, with wider spacing between them.
Acoustic Electric
An acoustic-electric ukulele combines the traditional hollow body and shape of the ukulele with an electronic pickup that can be plugged into electric amplifiers, or to be recorded directly.
It has the magnet pickup system that absorbs the vibrations the strings produce, which are transferred to the amp.
Best Ukuleles By Price
When you’re shopping for ukuleles most people will have a budget in mind. Below you can find different lists of the best instruments organized by their cost.
Ukuleles For Beginners
Below are lists of different types of Ukuleles and Ukulele accessories just for beginners. If you’re new to Ukulele, you’ll find what you need here.
Best Tenor Ukulele Strings
A guide to the best tenor ukulele strings on the market today!
Best Concert Ukulele Strings
A guide to the best concert ukulele strings on the market today!
Other Ukulele Gear
There is more gear for your ukulele than just the instrument and strings. Below we’ve included buyer’s guides to all of the important gear and accessories that you might want to purchase to complete your set-up.
Ukulele Music
Ukulele Lessons
If you want to learn how to play the ukulele, you can check out the informative lessons below for free on YouTube. This will give you the foundation you need to be able to play your new instrument and help you moving forward.
Beginner Lesson 1
Step-By-Step Tutorial
A quick tutorial on the parts of the ukulele, a couple of the easiest chords you can learn and some basic info to get you started playing.
Beginner Lesson 2
Step-By-Step Tutorial
A quick tutorial on the parts of the ukulele, a couple of the easiest chords you can learn and some basic info to get you started playing.
Beginner Lesson 3
Step-By-Step Tutorial
A quick tutorial on the parts of the ukulele, a couple of the easiest chords you can learn and some basic info to get you started playing.
Beginner Lesson 4
Step-By-Step Tutorial
A quick tutorial on the parts of the ukulele, a couple of the easiest chords you can learn and some basic info to get you started playing.