KoAloha Ukulele Hawaii

Ukulele Festival 2010

Roy Sakuma’s 40th Anniversary Ukulele Festival was a blast! We thank everyone who came by to visit! To view our pictures please check out our Picture Gallery! Thanks again and see you next year!

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Website Fixes

Our website provider has moved the KoAloha.com site to a new server.  In the process, many of our product links are disabled at this time.  We are working to fix it, so please bear with us at this time.  All other links, including customer service and dealers, still work so you can contact us with [...]

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Aloha from KoAloha!

Hey there everybody! Sorry for the delay with new posts. We are experiencing some problems with our blogging server. I will be adding some photos when the problems have been resolved.
Thanks for your patience!

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Aloha from Brian!

Aloha and Mahalo to everyone who has supported KoAloha Ukulele. We have new videos up from all our staff members. Please check out our Videos section, as well as our updated Staff section. Once again, Mahalo!

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Kirk’s new uke…….bu

Hey everyone! I would like to introduce you to Kirk Shimabukuro. Yup. I asked, and he’s not related.
He is a young musician and currently attending HCC. Although Paul heads the custom shop, “Project Kirk” was assigned to us Journeymen. We also had a couple of our apprentices get involved with the build.
Big shout out to…
Alan [...]

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The Original KoAloha Ukulele – The Mini-Uke

This is the Original KoAloha Ukulele – The Mini-Uke. It is the ukulele that started it all. Papa KoAloha’s inspiration that would become the basis for all that is KoAloha Ukulele today.

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Sceptre Ebony 6-String Ukulele

This is the very limited Sceptre Ebony 6-String Ukulele. Made with Ebony sides and back, this is a rare ukulele indeed.

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Sceptre Concert Special Ukulele

Once in a while we get special one-of-a-kind wood. This Sceptre Concert Ukulele is one of those, with distressed koa wood.

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Hapa Concert Ukulele

The Hapa Concert is a special KoAloha Concert Ukulele especially made for Kiwaya Instruments for sale in Japan.

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Welcome to the New KoAloha.com

Welcome to the New KoAloha.com! We have upgraded our website and will feature even more information than ever before. Please check back for more from KoAloha, including exciting news of our new iPhone App miSonata: Ukulele – the world’s first ukulele application that you can play on your iPhone!

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miSonata: Ukulele

miSonata: Ukulele

miSonata: Ukulele - The new iPhone App! Exclusively featuring KoAloha Ukulele, learn to play ukulele on your iPhone! Download it now from iTunes!

Factory Specials

Check our new section featuring Factory Special Ukuleles direct from the KoAloha Factory!

Tracking a piece of wood, milling, part one

I will be doing a series of posts, tracking different pieces of koa, as they make their way to ukulele stardom. This is milling, part one.