BEST PLACE TO BUY A UKULELE Mele Ukulele Never say that the smallest of us all will never rise above and conquer. A tiny shop, shoved in a corner on the side of the road has won Best Place to Buy a Ukulele. Beautiful and quality hand-made wooden ukuleles, guitars and many more. Thank Mele […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2015: Best Place To Buy an Ukulele on Maui Mele Ukulele
BEST PLACE TO BUY AN UKULELE ON MAUI Mele Ukulele The Mele Ukulele store is dedicated in making sure only the most beautiful melodies emit from their ukuleles when you string “Aloha Oe.” Its handmade instruments are constructed out of precious Hawaiian koa and other tropical tonewoods like mahogany. Playing one of the shop’s ukuleles […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2014: Best Ukulele Shop Mele Ukulele
Best ‘Ukulele Shop Photo credit to Sean M. Hower Mele ‘Ukulele So not long ago I bought a ‘ukulele. Nothing serious of fancy (though it is blue and triangular)–just a starter deal that isn’t a toy you’d find at Wal-Mart. Anyway, a friend who shall remain nameless stopped by started strumming it. “It’s strung wrong,” […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best Ukulele Shop on Maui: Mele Ukulele
Photo Courtesy of Mele Ukulele. Best Ukulele Shop Mele Ukulele Mele Ukulele boasts entirely handmade products. Keeping up with cost efficient processes has also allotted Mele Ukulele the opportunity to offer competitive pricing. Whether you’re looking for koa, mahogany or spruce instruments with one hole or two, Mele Ukulele has a uke fit for any […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2012: Best Ukulele Shop on Maui: Bounty Music
Best Ukulele Shop Bounty Music Bounty Music takes pride in the quality of their ukuleles, and for good reason. On Maui, a guy carrying around a ukulele is as ubiquitous as eating poke at pau hana. Everybody loves that guy. The one that shakes hands with everybody, whose loud laugh gives him away in a […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2011: Best Ukulele Shop on Maui: Mele Ukulele
BEST UKULELE SHOP Mele Ukulele 1750 Kaahumanu Ave., Wailuku meleukulele.com The cutest chordophone on Earth heralds Hawaiian heritage (thanks first to da Portuguese cavaquinho et alia), so when Mauians select who’s got the best ukulele shop on-isle, they know what they’re talking about. For 20 years, Mele Ukulele–under the direction of world-renowned luthier Michael Rock–has […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2009: Best Place to Buy an Ukulele on Maui: Bounty Music
PLACE TO BUY AN UKULELE Bounty Music This past winter, when it rained nearly every morning (at least in Wailuku), I would hear the neighbor kids walk up and down the street, strumming their ukes in a manner most eerie, a quality that the rain seemed to amplify. “Only in Hawaii,” I would think before […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2008: Best Place to Get a Musical Instrument on Maui: Kama’aina Loan
(Edit Pick) BEST PLACE TO GET A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT… CHEAP! Kama‘aina Loan A buddy of mine swears he found a perfectly good, remarkable sounding Squier Bullet that should have cost something like $400 for just $140. In fact, he was so shocked that he immediately ran to the bank (delaying our lunch engagement by at […]