Do you prefer Mango or Koa Ukuleles? Romero Creations Replica and Tiny Tenor
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2020
- Everyone loves Koa and an increasing number of ukulele players are getting into Mango for its unique and yet distinctly Hawaiian properties... The question is which is your favourite?
The Ukuleles featured can be found at the links below.
Romero Creations Replica Mango
www.southernukulelestore.co.u...
Romero Creations Replica Koa
www.southernukulelestore.co.u...
Romero Creations Tiny Tenor Mango
www.southernukulelestore.co.u...
Romero Creations Tiny Tenor Koa
www.southernukulelestore.co.u...
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I have loved the Pepe Romero mango tenor since the first time I saw and heard it. As nice as they all were, nothing has changed. And as always, thanks so much for posting, Alex!
The mango in the replica tenor, the koa in the tiny tenor were my faves.
Love the back to back sound samples, makes it so easy to compare! The koa in both cases is my fave, the sound just has more freedom somehow.
What do you mean by freedom maam?
I like the mango Tiny Tenor ~ warm melodious notes caress the gentle breeze, as I lean against the Oak...
I have 2 Romero STC concerts : one mango and one koa, and... I love them both, lol. The mango sounds a bit deeper (bassy ?), mellower and softer, and the koa is a bit brighter, with more projection. I tuned them both low-G, except that the mango is standard GCEA and the koa is one step down (FA#DG). And believe it or not, but if I don't hear them side by side, I can hardly say which one is tuned lower : due to its "darker" round sound, the mango feels deeper, whereas the koa doesn't feel lower due to its brightness and cheerful warmth ! (I tune my ukes different to have more choices when I sing, as I have a rather low voice for a lady, but higher than a man, so I'm often "caught in between"). 😉
Your videos are very informative, with in-depth explanations : all what uke nerds like me absolutely love !!
Koa is brighter to my ears but boy are they excellent instruments.
Mango (by a narrow margin). Seemed richer in tone. Preferred that for the Tiny as well. All four sounded really good.
They all sound beautiful, it seems that the koa is brighter, and the mango sounds great also, I want both 😁
Thanks fr the awesome review! Well done.
Mango knocks Koa out of the park....
Mango is lovely, but after listening this video I still prefer koa. I really like the shimmering it gives to sound!
My favorite is the Romero mango. Such a pretty tone!
Mango on the tiny tenor and koa on the replica.
Wow! I’ve only just started in my Ukulele journey having never been able to learn any instrument before for a variety of reasons (mainly little hands). But I had no idea of the amount of choice there was. I’m currently on a Paisen Concert as a starter but I think I prefer the mango in terms of sound and even look.
Stunning!!! The Romero Mango was just so rich and beautiful. Now where’s that piggy bank????
The Koa replica sounds superb.
I have to say I’m a fan of Mango. I love the traditional sound of Koa but I bought a Mango so I guess that says it for me. 😊
For me mango sounds so much nicer. The first mango uke was the best sounding in my opinion.
I've only owned one solid koa ukulele and I sold it pretty quick however my mango is here to stay.
Hi Alex, thanks for the comparisons. I am surprised to say that I actually prefer the Mango. Especially the Romero Creations Replica Mango.
I thought I was going to prefer the replicas (I guess cos of their more traditional-ness) but I actually preferred the sound of the tiny tenors! Can't decide between the koa and mango though - both sound lovely.
Kind of a horse a piece. Honestly it depends on whether you like brighter tone (koa) or the mellow vibes of the mango.
I heard a red label ko'aloha tenor with a koa soundboard and mango back and sides... not the hybrid one they have.
And it was the best sounding uke I've ever heard. In a couple years I wanna have one made.
That sounds amazing
I listened to the video without watching it and the watched it after. Surprisingly, I preferred the sound of the mango 🥭.
Koa Replica gets my vote.
Thanks for sharing
I love my Kala spalted mango ukulele
but, of all the 12 ukuleles that I'm lucky to own, the greatest is my Koa concert Martin. ❤
I like the mango tiny tenor!!
Tiny tenors sounded more like a smaller uke to me. Sound great but not like those Replicas. I went for the koa Replica. Beautiful sound and beautiful ukes. I hope Southern Ukelele is selling lots of ukes and bet these are gone! Thanks for the great videos and all the best to Southern Uke from here across the pond.
To my ears koa is brighter and I can hear the notes better. But I'd have both koa and mango. Maybe play mango for jazz, and koa for more finger style playing.
Thanks, Alex. Like the Santa Cruz cap. Santa Cruz is about a 40-minute Drive from my home... Cheers.
Mango and Mango. Replica over TT
I like the mango replica best. Thank you for the comparison.
Replica is great!!
Spoiler alert, his favorite is Mahogany. To my ears the tonewoods seem to be warm-Mahogany, lukewarm-Mango, lukebright-Koa, bright-Spruce. The mango sounds lovely, warm with still some of that classic sound. But I think Koa with a low G hits the sweet spot of not too bright, full sounding, but still very uke sounding.
Over the past 3 years I have really grown to love Mango. For me, that replica Mango is as good as many Instruments that have been through my hands 2-3 times the price.
I like the look of Mango more, BUT, I have to say the Koa sounded more resonate to me.
I prefer the mango in both models.
Hi Alex,
I have played all four of those Ukuleles. I prefer the sound of the Mango in person. The Complexity and fullness of the sound Mango produces really does not come through well in videos.
I agree. I prefer the Mango in person but it doesn't record as true to life as the Koa to my ear.
@@SouthernUkuleleStore I find that there is what seems like microphone "saturation distortion" with the mango, whereas the koa does not do this with the result that the different notes seem more easily distinguishable with the koa.
I generally prefer mango to koa, but this time was very close!
I love a mango but think it has a brighter sound on a concert or soprano size, so the Koa wins this round for me. I wasn't a fan of the tiny tenor sounds either, personly the full size wins out for sound quality
I thought both mango had a richer tone👍
kinda hard to compare koa and 🥭 … clinically proven now:
a player has to have BOTH 😂
Koa definitely
Found the two tiny tenors almost identical to each-other, and worse (to my ears) than the replicas.
Of the replicas, the Koa seemed to have more clarity and I liked it better, but I suspect the darker tones of the mango would be very useful in smaller-sized ukes.
I'll take one of each please.
Booth sounds good, but I prefer the KOA too.
MANGO !! (Replica .. I prefer a larger body sound) I'm in Canada and it is sooooo hard to find one.
We ship to Canada and we have them in stock. Just sayin'
Koa!
Mango for me.
I’ve always loved this little sweet song you play on each to compare ukes... do you have tabs for it? :)
The first dittie. Well, and ok, the second, come to that!
If you follow my channel Ukes With Alex I will be doing tutorials for both of those in the coming months.
Will an all- laminate ukulele improve with aging ( although understandably slower than all-wood instrument)? Thanks
Have to say Koa really and that replica series one is really sweet. Not a fan of those tiny tenors really. I have a DaSilva Mango tenor , it also has that deep bluesy kind of sound but I think one Mango is enough. 🙂
Would've liked to hear the same song on all four ukuleles to level the playing field.
I like the mango, does the Romero replica project well. Is it a quite or higher volume instrument?
I wouldn't say so tbh. It's not quiet but it is more traditional and fluffy than loud.
4:00 wow wow could someone tell me how to put those strings? especially the 4th string
🤔🤔🤔🤔
Mango all day baby lol
how did I miss this? btw, Alex … what is it w\ the noise?
It was a long time ago... turned out that the lighting from the basement was underneath where I would sit the recorder and it created an earth hum.
Hello, Alex!
Sorry, a question a bit apart of the Romeros...
We are both left-handed players. I started playing about 3 months ago and I chose not to invert the string order.
Here is my question: do you consider clever, useful, to invert the strumming patterns so we get the correct last-played string as the right handed players?
For instance a song is DDUUD so I tend to play it UUDDU in order to always have the right sequence of strings played, in the right order, so the last string played is the correct one. As far as I am still a d@mn novato, big newbie, a single GCEA strum of mine sounds different from a AECG, at least for me, maybe because my strum is still not homogenic. And this even with fast strums. It seems you sometimes alternate conventional and "inverted" strums... specially with slow strums, or the last one. Right handed players play it as a Down, and you seem to prefer playing it as an Up. What's your thinking about that, please, Alex?
Must I keep learning to play songs with inverted strums (complicates things a bit) or does it not make sense, according to your feeling and experience?
Big big thanks. Regards from a French fan living in Lima, Peru.
When I play instruments at home I have my instruments restrung left handed. For the shop demos I have to work with what I have in front of me and I often choose to invert how I strum or play so that the listener hears the ukulele as close to how they will play as possible.
The downside to not choosing to restring left handed is that as you advance as a player and stop relying on written instructions to tell you what to play is that you will hear that playing upside down has a more brittle, brighter sound. I rarely strum normally in the videos on low G instruments because my down strum creates such a heavy emphasis on the A string and the Low G is softer than when a right handed player does it.
The main reason I play the same things over and over again is because I know they sound normal to the audience.
Hope that helps, take care
@@SouthernUkuleleStore Good points, Alex. Helps a lot, yes. My strumming gets anarchic because I end by mixing ups downs... I think I MUST define for good my definitive way of strumming. I will keep using not inverted strings ukes because I share my ukes with my right-handed son... and it's the easiest way to share any instrument with people I may meet.
Thanks for your answer and keep on enlighten our days with your passion.
Question for you, how well do soprano ukes take to being played with a low G?
Not very well in my opinion. I quite enjoy seeing Herb Ohtas old uke videos where he uses a thick classical guitar strings on a soprano. On the whole, it's hard to see a soprano at it's best strung this way.
@@SouthernUkuleleStore so really it is not suitable for a tenor then? Thanks for the advice, I'm 'training" on a mahalo friction tuner soprano but once lockdown is lifted👍🏆😎🤣
Should have been IS really best suited to a tenor uke
Tiny Tenor Koa version.
Mango wins!
Koa
Mango 2:12
Koa 3:16
How and where to buy them???
Look at the description of the video for links.
If all Romero ukes come with a Low G, would it be stupid to restring with a High G?
Not at all
are we watching the same video - the koa is so much richer, rounder, complex..I keep listening to hear what the mango folks are hearing and it sounds plinky, plinky, plinky to me...sorry
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They say that mango solid is quiet sound its that true??
Completely depends on the build. Pono mangos are quiet, Kanile'a Mangos are loud... It sounds like 'they' are generalising to be honest.
I think the audio samples of mango vs koa for the Romero's show there is a difference in tone but not really on Volume. Maybe the koa is louder in this instance but not heaps louder.
Mango is about the same volume as mahogany most of the time.
mango more bottom end, less harmonics on high frequencies / listened on 2 pairs of monitors
Koa for evah, sorry ahahah
Hard decision... 🤔
Koa one was better.
Mang definitely richer blend, nice