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Honolua Banjolele

Plays like your ukulele. Sounds like nothing else you own.

Size chart
Sizing Information

The four ukulele sizes held by a child, a teenager and an adult: soprano 21 inches, concert 24 inches, tenor 26 inches, baritone 30 inches

Soprano - Soprano is the smallest of the four ukulele sizes, and the traditional one. It's the pick for kids learning ukulele, and for adults who like the brighter tone of a traditional ukulele.

Concert - Bigger than a soprano and smaller than a tenor, the concert is the size most people are happiest on: roomy enough for adult hands, small enough to feel friendly. Small children may be better suited to a soprano.

Tenor - The tenor is the biggest of the standard sizes, and its larger body gives a fuller, deeper sound. It suits teenagers and adults who want the most volume and extra room for their fingers on the fretboard.

Baritone - The baritone is the largest and deepest-sounding ukulele. It's tuned like the four thinnest strings of a guitar, so if you've played guitar you won't have to learn any new chord shapes. It's also a lot of fun for a ukulele player looking for a different tone.

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Sound check

This is what you’ll hear when you pick it up.

2026 model — played by Mustafa Kamaliddin

Food, Stuff, and Trains — played on the Honolua Kohola Deluxe Six-String Tenor and the Honolua Banjolele by The Crickettes

Alanis Morissette medley — played on the Honolua Nalu All-Solid Tenor and the Honolua Banjolele by The Crickettes

Why the banjolele steals every jam it walks into.

A banjolele is exactly what it sounds like: a ukulele neck and tuning, with a banjo's drum head where the wooden top would be. Strum one chord and you get that bright, percussive snap that cuts straight through a room.

Your hands already know how to play it. It's everyone else who'll notice the difference.

In a circle of wooden ukuleles it's the one people hear first and ask about after, and it's hard to play one without somebody smiling. If your collection is missing the instrument that gets a grin every time it comes out of the case, this is it.

  • You’ll hear the difference.The first strum is louder and richer than the one you came from.
  • Easy under the fingers.It stops fighting you. Smooth fret ends, comfortable action, and it holds tune, so you play instead of tuning.
  • Ready the day it lands.Somebody who plays opened it, tuned it and played it in Calgary, so you pick it up and start.
  • Body Shape - Open Back Banjolele
  • Head - Remo
  • Rim - Maple
  • Neck - Maple
  • Fretboard - Solid Rosewood
  • Bridge - Maple and Ebony
  • Nut - Bone
  • Nut Width - 35mm
  • Binding - ABS
  • Finish - Open Pore
  • Tuning Heads - Gold Open Gear
  • Tuning Buttons - Cream
  • Fretboard Inlays - White Dots; Black Side Dots
  • Strings - Aquila
  • Scale Length - 394mm
  • Gig Bag - 5mm Padded with Embroidered Logo, Included

Every ukulele ships free anywhere in Canada or to the U.S., with no customs duty or tariffs, and nothing due on delivery.

You get 30 days with it in your hands. If your ears disagree, send it back. If it arrives with anything wrong, we fix or replace it and cover the cost. Shipping policy · Return policy

Banjolele

There’s always a next one.

The four things doing the work on this one.

That banjo snap

A real tensioned drum head where a wooden top would be. Bright, percussive, and loud enough to cut through any jam without trying.

Ukulele hands

Same tuning and the same chord shapes you already play. No learning curve between your uke and this, just a completely different voice.

The jazz-age voice

The sound of 1920s dance halls and music hall records. It's been making people smile for a hundred years and it still works.

The details

Solid rosewood fingerboard and a build checked and adjusted in Calgary before it ships. Same standard as the rest of the lineup.

Size · Concert

Soprano
Concert
Tenor
Baritone

What happens after you order.

  1. It arrives ready to play.

    We inspect it, play it, and adjust it in Calgary first. If anything’s off, it doesn’t ship.

  2. It ships free, in its gig bag.

    Give it a quick tune when it lands and it holds.

  3. 30 days to fall in love with it.

    If your ears disagree, send it back. Anything wrong on arrival, we fix or replace it, on us.

  4. Questions? Ask Dave.

    The person who designed it answers, usually the same day.

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A Honolua tenor ukulele on a bed beside a tablet playing a Honolua Starter Course lesson with Dave
The Honolua Starter Course · Included free with every ukulele

Play songs you already know and love in only three days.

Let It Be. Country Roads. Don’t Stop Believin’. Three sessions of about an hour each, with Dave playing along on every song. No theory, and it’s yours for life.

  1. Session one

    Learn your first chords.

  2. Session two

    Play your first five songs.

  3. Session three

    Sixteen songs you can play.

  • First, the Owner’s Course. How to hold, tune, restring and look after it, the accessories worth buying, a troubleshooting hub, and left-handed setup.
  • Already play? Sixteen new songs for group night, chords one click away, and The Uke Night Songbook at an exclusive Honolua customer discount.
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The accessories most players pick up in the first month, matched to your instrument. One click, one discount.

Honolua Ukuleles Essentials Accessory Bundle, showing the wooden stand, clip-on tuner, trigger capo, felt picks and string winder
Essentials Bundle The most popular accessories
  • ✓Wood stand
  • ✓Clip-on tuner
  • ✓Capo
  • ✓String winder
  • ✓Felt picks
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Still not sure?

What people ask before they order.

Yes. The Starter Course that comes with it assumes nothing: not one lesson, not one chord. It starts with how to hold the instrument and has you playing popular songs within days, one short step at a time. Most of our players started past fifty.

The demo videos at the top of this page are this exact model. Most models have several, and you’re listening to the ukulele, not taking our word for it.

Yes. Every one comes through Calgary to be inspected, played, and adjusted before it ships. Give it a quick tune when it lands, like any stringed instrument, and it holds.

You get 30 days with it in your hands. If your ears disagree, send it back. And if anything is wrong when it arrives, we fix or replace it and cover the cost.

All ukuleles ship free anywhere within Canada or to the U.S., with no customs duty or tariffs, and nothing due on delivery.

The concert is the size most people are happiest on: roomy enough for adult hands, small enough to feel friendly. If you’re torn, the Meet Your Match quiz asks a few questions and lands on a size and model, with 10% off your first order. And Dave answers his own email, usually the same day.

Designed in Calgary, built to our spec by our partner factory overseas, and every one comes back through Calgary before it ships to you.

The Honolua Starter Course, and it’s yours for life. It opens with an Owner’s Course (sizes, strings, tuning, restringing and care), then the 3-Day Fast Track: three sessions of about an hour, and sixteen popular songs with Dave playing along on every one. Already play? That’s sixteen new songs for the next group night.

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