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I've been curious about these since I saw this youtube video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhGanOoS0Y[/media]

It doesn't sound too bad to me. But when I tried out a Kala U-Bass, I was disappointed with both the sound and feel. Not that I'm saying that others might not like them, but I didn't feel any particular GAS. The Tanglewood Traveller is bigger, and I'm hoping that it would have a more impressive acoustic sound.

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I've not experienced the Tanglewood one myself but I've played a few of these ukulele/travel basses and I love them. They're a nice little handy thing to have around for practice but you could take one of these to a folk night and play it without issue. The Kala, Harley Benton and Ashbury ones I've played have all sounded much much better than the video. As Discreet says, the recording levels are way into the red and it's distorting badly.

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[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1431166022' post='2768393']
The clip didn't quite live up to the horrors promised in your thread title ;)
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Well I for one was disgusted...

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[quote name='Annoying Twit' timestamp='1431109199' post='2767955']
I've been curious about these since I saw this youtube video:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjhGanOoS0Y[/media]

It doesn't sound too bad to me. But when I tried out a Kala U-Bass, I was disappointed with both the sound and feel. Not that I'm saying that others might not like them, but I didn't feel any particular GAS. The Tanglewood Traveller is bigger, and I'm hoping that it would have a more impressive acoustic sound.
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MUCH nicer!

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I haven't tried a Tanglewood personally
But I wouldn't mind giving one a whirl

I had an Ashbory, and didn't really get on with it
It sounded good - much beefier than it looked
But I didn't like the rubber strings, which also seemed to continually go out of tune

I had gone off this sort of instrument, until I played a Kala U-bass the other day
It handled much better than the Ashbory, and I much preferred the strings on that
The ones on the Ashbory were thicker, white in colour and felt far more "rubbery"
Whereas the ones on the Kala were not quite so thick, and stayed in tune better
and felt less rubbery and easier to play

I think these can be quite useful, sound a bit like a double bass
and are very handy to cart along to open-mics and such....
Edit: depending on how good the Tanglewood model is, of course

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[quote name='Marc S' timestamp='1431359265' post='2770451']

The ones on the Ashbory were thicker, white in colour and felt far more "rubbery"
Whereas the ones on the Kala were not quite so thick, and stayed in tune better
and felt less rubbery and easier to play

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The Kala almost certainly had Aquila Thunderguts fitted ... much better than the silicone jobbies.

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I had one of those for a while, the strings had been change so I'm not sure if that helped but it sounded huge if you played over the neck, in the end I moved it on as I struggled with the rubbery strings.

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