Kahuna CLU-Bass Ukulele : Outstanding buy

The kahuna bass is a true head turner! I bought on a whips I host open mics and often have a lot of kit to carry around. I thought this might come in handy, and boy did it!!

I'll get the negatives out the way early on. The build quality was very rough feeling, quite unfinished and rushed in terms of finishing, nothing five minutes with Polish and a cloth couldn't fix, but nonetheless there was a lot of saw dust and file marks.

The sound however is incredible! I used the kahuna to simulate double bass VERY effectively, and literally had a queue of people waiting to examine it after its first outing in public!

Later I used it in place of a jazz bass for a fast jazz funk jam, it was fine, both to play and in terms of sound. If you learn to work with it and get your head (well, fingers!) around the tight spacing it really can fill in for either electric or upright bass perfectly well .

The tone can be bright, as most piezoelectric pickups are, but the tone control is pretty wide ranging and you really can get great tones out of it!

Tuning is an experience! Takes a LOT of turning before anything happens, but you get there in the end.

A stunning buy.