Luna Bari-Bass Ukulele w/ Preamp, Quilt Top

Full Description

Quilt Ash Body

The Bari-Bass features a body entirely crafted from quilt ash which provides a stunning appearance and superb tone. The quilt ash body produces a rich tone with snappy and strong characteristics such as a distinctive mid-response, rounded lows, and popping highs. Overall you receive a well-rounded and versatile sound that is beautifully balanced.

Mahogany Neck Topped With Walnut Fingerboard

The neck features a set-neck construction in a C shape to provide a comfortable playing experience. The mahogany neck is topped with a walnut fingerboard that offers a unique, warm and earthy tone that really shines through when playing picking styles. The Bari-Bass neck is made from mahogany which responds well to picking, strumming, and various finger techniques with ease.

Baritone Ukulele Body

The Bari-Bass Quilt Top features the baritone size body shape, which offers great bass-uke tone and a comfortable playing experience. The baritone ukulele is the biggest member of the uke family, and is even used in genres such as Jazz. Some of the greatest Jazz players favour the baritone size because of its big frets that allow players to squeeze chords up the neck to achieve great Jazz bass tone. Baritone tuning is usually G-C-E-A, and is exclusively strung with a low top string. The Bari-Bass is ideal for those bass/guitar players wanting a more compact size.

Fishman Clasica II Preamp

The Bari-Bass comes equipped with an on-board Fishman preamp and tuning system, offering a stage ready baritone uke ideal for the gigging musician. The Clasica was optimised specifically for nylon string instruments, offering a range of features in a compact design. The Fishman Clasica system comes with a pre-wired piezo pickup for a solder-free installation. This sophisticated system offers quick and easy tuning via its LED easy-read screen. Tonal shaping options include bass, treble, phase, and volume controls.

Luna History

Yvonne Villiers is an accomplished stained-glass artist who envisioned Luna guitars. Her inspiration for a line of guitars designed to maximise playing comfort came from her mother, Hilda Villiers, a bassist for over 40 years. Whilst watching her mum on stage, Yvonne couldn't help but notice the massive struggle her mum had whilst playing. With her mum being petite and using such a heavy instrument, she used to complain of how hard it was to be a woman and try to play these big bass guitars. Yvonne then questioned if there were others like her mum that struggled with the same problems and pains. She came up with the idea of a woman specific guitar, uniquely tailored to fit their bodies, their hands, and their musical styles.

Yvonne moved on to created Luna guitars, a line of guitars made for female musicians of all ages and crafted with luminous visual beauty to engage women's minds and spirits along with their talent. Yvonne already had brilliant artistic skills and use of colour, she then applied the same techniques as she did with her award winning stained glass work to her new line of guitars. She is known for using rich colours that shimmer and shine with every movement providing an eye-catching design along with the great musical tones Luna guitars deliver. Yvonne's design expertise has led so many men to respond to Luna's well-crafted, spirit-engaging instruments that the company now creates guitars for both female and male musicians of all ages.

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Series: Bari-Bass
• Body Material: Quilt Ash
• Bridge: Walnut

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Walnut
• Nut Width: 44 mm
• Fingerboard Inlays: Abalone Dot
• Scale Length: 20.2"
• Neck Shape: C
• Neck Construction: Set Neck

Hardware & Electronics

• Hardware Colour: Black
• Machine Heads: Open Gear
• Preamp: Fishman Clasica II
• Bridge Pickup: Piezo
• Strings: Aquila Thundergut Bass Uke
• Preamp Controls: Bass, Treble, Phase, Volume, Tuner