Oscar Schmidt OU5 Concert Ukulele
A beautiful concert ukulele with select Hawaiian Koa wood construction, Abalone binding and rosette, Grover chrome tuners, and plenty more, hand-crafted for years of playing enjoyment.
A beautiful concert ukulele hand-crafted for years of playing enjoyment. Click to enlarge.
OU5 Ukulele Features
Size: Concert Top: Select Hawaiian Koa Back/Sides: Select Hawaiian Koa Binding: Abalone Rosette: Abalone Neck: Nyatoh Frets: 16 Nut/Saddle: ABS Finish: Natural Gloss Tuners: Grover Chrome
Concert Ukeleles
There are four common types of ukes out there: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. The soprano was the original, followed up quickly with the concert size uke. The 15-inch scale length and slightly larger body size deliver a deeper tone and a bit more volume, while maintaining the sweetness and instantly recognizable ukulele sound.
The Oscar Shmidt OU5 Concert Ukulele
The OU5 concert ukulele features a select Hawaiian Koa top, back and sides, which look striking in the natural gloss finish. The abalone binding and rosette are the icing on the cake, for an instrument that’s as beautiful to look at as it is to hear.
The OU5’s Nyatoh neck features a 16-fret rosewood fretboard, and Grover chrome tuning machines ensure you stay in tune.
Oscar Schmidt instruments feature a lifetime warranty, and each ukulele is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician–your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality.
About Oscar Schmidt Musical Instruments
The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps.
The company prospered through the early 1920s. Oscar Schmidt instruments were sold in many rural parts of the country where no music stores existed. Salesmen distributed the products far and wide, making them available in general, small town furniture and dry goods stores. Country guitar pickers and blues musicians living in areas of the South and in Appalachia, far from the city, frequently played Oscar Schmidt instruments because they were both inexpensive and available locally. But equally important, they were often chosen solely on merits of their superior tone and volume.
Today at Oscar Schmidt, premium woods, quality hardware and modest prices create an ideal instrument. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality. Unequalled standards in easy playing comfort and tone response creates the perfect value… Oscar Schmidt.
Product Features
- It features select Hawaiian Koa body and top with gloss finish
- It has Abalone binding and rosette on top
- It features Nyatoh neck, rosewood fingerboard and bridge
- It has Grover chrome tuners
- It has lifetime warranty
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One of the best ukuleles for the money Iâve played the guitar for years but have only recently gotten into the ukulele. For this purchase I wanted something that would look and sound good at a budget under $200. I did a lot of research both online and in stores and eventually narrowed my options down to the Oscar Schmidt OU5.PriceThis ukulele tends to go for $120-130 which puts it above the cheap ukuleles and into the midrange for beginner/intermediate ukuleles. As an aside, I would recommend skipping over the…
Great introduction to a new hobby. I’m a lifelong guitar player and a first time ukulele player so for my first uke I wanted to buy something on the higher end of “entry level” and after about 3 weeks putting this ukulele through the paces (about 3-4 hours playing heavily 4 or 5 days a week) I have no complaints with the build quality of this instrument.After the first day or two of breaking in the strings, the tuners have held tune very well. The fret wire ends are all cut/filed smooth with the edges of the…
Lovin’ this Uke!! Beautiful, and fast shipping! Ordered this on Thursday afternoon, and it arrived on Saturday morning in perfect shape!!(Awesome job Amazon and Zorro Sound, thanks customer service!!!)Not only is this a beautiful ukulele, but the KOA wood gives it a true ukulele smooth beautiful sound! The action is set up great all the way up the frets, and maintains the tuning quite well!! No bleeding of overtones, clean clear notes, easy to play.If you are going to get a ukulele anywhere near $100, spend a few more…