This soprano uke is beautifully adorned in abalone and exotic rosewood. With its select spruce top and rosewood back/sides, it delivers the dulcet tones you'd expect from a ukelele, and with Oscar Schmidt's precision setup you know it'll play like a charm.
A soprano uke beautifully adorned in abalone and exotic rosewood.
Soprano Ukeleles
There are four common types of ukes out there: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. The soprano--or standard--was the original, and is the smallest sized uke. It provides plenty of sweetness and that instantly recognizable ukulele sound.
Abalone rosette and binding.
Chrome die-cast tuning machines.
The Oscar Shmidt OU3 Soprano Ukulele
The OU3 features a select spruce top and rosewood back and sides, both of which look striking through the natural gloss finish. The abalone binding and rosette are the visual icing on the cake.
The OU3 boasts a 16-fret rosewood fretboard to match the back and sides, with die-cast chrome tuning machines to keep your tuning in check.
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.
OU3 Specs
- Size: Soprano
- Top: Select Spruce
- Back/Sides: Rosewood
- Binding: Abalone
- Rosette: Abalone
- Frets: 16
- Nut/Saddle: ABS
- Finish: Natural Gloss
- Tuners: Die-Cast
