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Honolua Banjolele

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

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Soprano : El soprano es el más pequeño de los cuatro tamaños de cuerpo de ukelele y es el tamaño tradicional. El Honu Soprano es perfecto para niños que están aprendiendo a tocar el ukelele o para adultos que prefieren el tono más brillante de un ukelele tradicional.

Concierto : Los ukeleles de concierto son actualmente el tamaño de caja más popular en todo el mundo. Más grande que un ukelele soprano pero más pequeño que un ukelele tenor, un ukelele de concierto es el tamaño intermedio perfecto para la mayoría de los músicos. Este tamaño es adecuado para todas las edades, aunque un ukelele soprano puede ser más adecuado para niños pequeños.

Tenor : Los ukeleles tenor están en auge gracias al sonido pleno y profundo que produce su mayor tamaño. Más grande que el ukelele de concierto, el tenor es ideal para adolescentes y adultos que buscan el máximo volumen en su ukelele y más espacio para los dedos en el diapasón.

Barítono : Como su nombre indica, el ukelele barítono es el más grande y con el sonido más grave de todos los tamaños. Generalmente afinado como las cuatro cuerdas más agudas de una guitarra (DGBE), en lugar de la afinación GCEA que se encuentra en la mayoría de los ukeleles, el barítono es ideal si tienes experiencia con la guitarra, ya que no tendrás que aprender nuevas formas de acordes. También son muy divertidos si tocas el ukelele y buscas experimentar con un tono diferente.

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Why the banjolele steals every jam it walks into.

Why the banjolele steals every jam it walks into.

A banjolele is exactly what it sounds like: ukulele size and tuning, with a banjo's tensioned drum head where the wooden top would be. Strum one chord and you get that bright, percussive snap that cuts straight through a room. It's the sound of 1920s dance halls and music hall records, and it hasn't lost any of its charm in the hundred years since.

Everything your hands already know transfers over. Same tuning, same chord shapes, same size. There's no learning curve. The chords you played on your uke last night sound completely different on this, and that's the whole point.

In a circle of wooden ukuleles, the banjolele is the one everyone hears first and asks about after. The drum head gives it volume and punch that a wooden top can't produce, and a solid rosewood fingerboard keeps the left hand feeling like home. Checked and adjusted in Calgary before it ships, like everything we sell.

We build these in small runs. If your collection needs the one instrument that gets a grin every single time it comes out of the case, this is it.

Full Specs
  • 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

A banjolele is exactly what it sounds like: ukulele size and tuning, with a banjo's tensioned drum head where the wooden top would be. Strum one chord and you get that bright, percussive snap that cuts straight through a room. It's the sound of 1920s dance halls and music hall records, and it hasn't lost any of its charm in the hundred years since.

Everything your hands already know transfers over. Same tuning, same chord shapes, same size. There's no learning curve. The chords you played on your uke last night sound completely different on this, and that's the whole point.

In a circle of wooden ukuleles, the banjolele is the one everyone hears first and asks about after. The drum head gives it volume and punch that a wooden top can't produce, and a solid rosewood fingerboard keeps the left hand feeling like home. Checked and adjusted in Calgary before it ships, like everything we sell.

We build these in small runs. If your collection needs the one instrument that gets a grin every single time it comes out of the case, this is it.

Full Specs
  • 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
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The instrument and the path forward, in one box.

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The Uke Night Method Starter Course Play sixteen songs you already know, by the end of the weekend. Six sections, self-paced, lifetime access.
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“This thing sounds like it should cost $2,000–$5,000.”

Mary Schneebeli · real review, Judge.me
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The Uke Night Method Starter Course · included free

Sixteen songs you already know, by the end of the weekend.

Four chords carry all sixteen of them — and on a ukulele, they’re among the simplest shapes there are.

Your first afternoon

Get comfortable with your instrument.

Tuning, the parts, how to hold it. The first hurdle, behind you.

A couple of days in

Your first chords, your first real song.

Four shapes, one at a time — and then a song you actually know, played all the way through.

About a weekend later

Sixteen campfire songs, start to finish.

Sixteen songs you already know the words to — the kind people join in on. Sixteen is a beginning, not a ceiling.

No complicated theory. No nursery rhyme songs. On your schedule, at your pace. And when you want more than sixteen, the full Uke Night Method picks up right where the starter leaves off and adds 200+ more songs — no rush.

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.

Built to be played

Real instruments, down to the details.

Bone Nut & Saddle

Bone rather than plastic, for more volume, tone, and clarity.

Quality Tuners

More time playing, less time tuning.

Easy Restring Bridge

New strings without the wrestling match, whenever they’re due.

Gig Bag Included

A proper bag in the box, so it travels the day it arrives.

Free Starter Course

The Uke Night Method Starter Course, taught in standard GCEA tuning. Included free.

Selected Tonewoods

Wood, never plastic. A warmer tone that gets richer over time.

Checked and adjusted in Calgary before it ships. Thirty days to return it.

Every instrument is played, checked, and adjusted by Dave before it leaves Calgary. Fret ends smoothed, tuners tested, string height confirmed. If it isn’t the right instrument, you have 30 days to send it back. And if anything is ever wrong, you write to Dave and he handles it himself.

★★★★★

“The contact us option is NOT a black hole.”

Deborah McGale · real review, Judge.me
Before you decide

The questions people actually ask us

Yes. The Starter Course assumes nothing — not one lesson, not one chord. It starts with how to hold the instrument and has you playing your first real song within hours, one short step at a time. Most of our players started past fifty.

★★★★★

“She has never played the ukulele before, but has already learned half a dozen songs in only a few days.”

William Cleland

If you’re having any trouble, you reach out to Dave — he’ll help. You have thirty days if it’s not for you. But the course exists so it doesn’t come to that: one small, doable thing each time you sit down, so the instrument earns a spot on the couch arm instead of the closet shelf.

★★★★★

“I purchased the Honolua baritone about 6 months ago. I have played it every day since then.”

Greg Johnston

Every instrument is checked and adjusted in Calgary before it ships, shipping is free across Canada and the US, and if something isn’t right when it arrives, Dave makes it right. Your order is processed through Shopify’s secure checkout — the same platform used by millions of stores worldwide. Hundreds of customers across Canada and the US have ordered this way, and you’re buying from a small Canadian family business that shows up in the ways that matter.

★★★★★

“The website is super helpful for helping you to pick a ukulele as a beginner. The ukulele arrived promptly and looked exactly as advertised.”

Sayde Spiteri-James

Each instrument is designed by Dave in Calgary, manufactured by our factory partner overseas, and then personally checked and adjusted by Dave in Calgary before it ships to you. It’s how we keep a real instrument at a fair price.

★★★★★

“The value for the dollar that this ukulele represents is exceptional.”

Dennis Alfano

Most beginners are happiest on a concert — roomy enough for adult hands, small enough to feel friendly. But hands, arms, and living rooms differ, which is why the Match Quiz asks about you before it suggests anything. One thing worth knowing if you’re drawn to a baritone, a ukulele bass or a guitalele: those are tuned differently, and the free Starter Course teaches standard tuning.

★★★★★

“Am so happy with my decision and the ukulele Honolua’s quiz picked out for me!”

Randy Hutton

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