Luna Tattoo Concert Ukulele, Spruce + Gig Bag - Nearly New

Full Description

Spruce Top & Mahogany Body

The Luna Tattoo Concert features a stunning spruce top that offers bright attack, broad dynamic range, and crisp articulation. Spruce is the most commonly used wood for guitar tops as it generates a dynamic tonal pallet and accommodates numerous playing techniques. The wood itself is quite elastic in nature, which resonates well whilst remaining strong, and provides a focused, clear sound of deep lows, warm midi-range, and bright singing highs. Its spruce top is balanced out well by the mahogany back and sides, as mahogany is denser and produces a richer tone, with emphasised warmth in the mid and low ranges. Mahogany is used a lot in the acoustic world because, it is relatively economical, durable, attractive, easy to work with, and resonant.

Mahogany Neck Topped With Rosewood Fingerboard

The neck features a set neck construction in a C shape to provide a comfortable playing experience. The Tattoo Concert neck is made from mahogany because the wood responds greatly to picking, strumming, and various finger techniques with equal ease. The mahogany neck is topped with a rosewood fingerboard that offers a bright, warm, sparkly tone that really shines through when playing picking styles.

Concert Body Shape

The Luna Tattoo Uke features a concert body shape, which produces rich and clear sound. The Tattoo Concert has 18 frets and has become the choice of preference for ukulele soloists due to its extended range. The concert shape enables players to perform more technical skills, whilst maintaining classic ukulele tone. The concert shape is slightly larger than standard soprano size and provides more volume due to more room for sound to vibrate around the body.

The Luna Look

Luna are well known for their nature-inspired designs that were created to engage a players spirit and mind along with their talent, and the Tattoo Concert is no exception. The tattoo design is based on Polynesian tattoo styles, which are strong geometric patterns, shapes, and symbols. These patterns and symbols represent the natural island world: stones, waves, fish, sharks, turtles, rain, sun, and birds. Luna have transferred this enchanting essence into a Polynesian laser etched tattoo'd guitar top, which embodies Luna's love for nature perfectly. The Tattoo is finished in natural satin, featuring shark teeth fingerboard markers, inlaid in mother-of-pearl for added elegance.

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.

Features

• Spruce top yields crisp articulation
• Mahogany body offers rich distinct warmth
• Concert body shape is ideal for ukulele soloists
• Natural satin finish offers sleek look and smooth play
• Shark teeth fingerboard markers inlaid in MOP projects natural island world theme
• Laser etched tattoo design offers eye-catching appearance

Specifications

Body & Bridge

• Series: Uke Tattoo
• Top Material: Spruce
• Back/Sides Material: Mahogany
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Finish: Satin Natural
• Colour: Natural
• Design Feature: Polynesian Tattoo

Neck & Fingerboard

• Neck Material: Mahogany
• Fingerboard Material: Rosewood
• Neck Finish: Satin Natural
• Number of Frets: 18
• Fingerboard Inlays: MOP Shark Teeth
• Scale Length: 15"
• Neck Shape: Set Neck C

Hardware

• Hardware Colour: Chrome
• Machine Heads: Pearloid Open Gear
• Strings: Aquila Strings