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Original Post By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/26/2010 1:18:05 PM |
| MGM posted about the new Flea designs. Well, I want a Flea that has a TENOR neck!....and so do friends of mine! At the NAMM Show I spoke with Dale the Flea/Fluke master and begged him about my desire. He said he had done some figuring up as to the plausibility of making one and decided against it. He then turned around and grabbed a concert-neck Flea and a tenor-neck Fluke held them up together and was going to show me why it was not feasible. But looking at them he simply stopped talking.....Could it be possible???? Well, I believe MANY of us would like to see one (and BUY one). It would give the neck room us tenor players have grown accustomed to, while maintaining that ever-so-cool Flea sound. Come on Dale, please, please. BeachBumTom Noble |
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Posted By:
northern uke
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Date: 1/26/2010 4:17:14 PM |
| Would the extra weight effect the balance and tone?
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/27/2010 6:21:40 PM |
| Come on folks, doesn't anyone agree enough to bump this thread back to the top. I "dreamt" that with a huge outpouring, and human cry for TENOR FLEAs that Dale and Magic Fluke would find a way to make it happen. BBT
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Posted By:
MR Bulk
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Date: 1/27/2010 7:38:59 PM |
I do believe MGM once sold Vineyards built like this (sopr bod w/tenr neck) and in fact I owned one and it played well indeed (even strung low G), so it must be possible. But make it with wooden fingerboard and metal frets, please...
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Posted By:
Yosef 1965
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Date: 1/27/2010 7:46:12 PM |
| Get a KoAloha superconcert
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/27/2010 8:11:59 PM |
| Dear Tom1965, I am the "King of KoAloha Fans" and have four fabulous ukes made by those wizards (and dear friends). However, Fleas are great for their purposes and I would LOVE to have one with a tenor neck. Two things take the KoAloha SuperConcert out of the same category I'm talking about: 1. they cost about 3 times as much, and 2. I wouldn't want to put my KoAloha under the same conditions as a Flea (like at the beach, kept in my car, using it in situations where it could be damaged, etc.). So let's demonstrate for the "new Tenor Flea." Aloha, BBT
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Posted By:
Wiley
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Date: 1/27/2010 11:45:16 PM |
Hey BBT, count me in! I've got a long-neck Ohana soprano...and luv it! Bought a Fluke a few years back, and regret not having opted for the Flea. Gimme some of those newfangled peghed tuners on a rosewood fretboarded long-neck Flea...and life could be a lot funner. Fer sure.
How does that concert Flea sound? Does it improve on the classic Flea, or is it just a different animal?
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Posted By:
BeachBumTom
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Date: 1/28/2010 12:59:03 AM |
| Wiley, I'll let someone else speak to the sound difference between the regular Flea and the concert Flea. Of hand I can't make a statement about any real difference in sound. I had a regular Flea and sold it when I got the concert Flea simply for more neck room. BBT
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Posted By:
Frank B
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Date: 1/28/2010 10:48:25 AM |
| I agree with you, BBT. The tenor scale Flea is much more doable than the requested baritone Fluke. That one died because of the cost of tooling up new molds for a larger body. But they already have a tenor length neck. And even if they had to make a new neck, it's only a matter of writing a new CNC program for the milling machine. I don't know the ins and outs of musical instrument marketing, but I think there might be enough demand to make it worth the trouble. Thank you for being a cruisader for inovation. Frank B.
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Posted By:
Jim Vyhnak
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Date: 1/28/2010 5:46:31 PM |
. . . mmmm . . . nice . . .
Count me in. Jim.
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Posted By:
Noel-lele
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Date: 1/31/2010 3:04:09 PM |
| Count me in!
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Posted By:
wilkat1
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Date: 2/2/2010 11:34:31 AM |
| I'd like to see one!
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Posted By:
Christie
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Date: 2/3/2010 4:09:50 PM |
| Well, as long as we're submitting Magic Fluke wishes wishes--I want a 15 fret Flea soprano! Just one more fret, please! I know the concert has 15 but it has a 15.5" scale and I'm struggling with a concert now that is 15.25" scale. A 14 inch scale, for me, is perfect.
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Posted By:
Wiley
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Date: 2/4/2010 12:13:05 AM |
Christie,
This thread really wasn't about generic "wishes". Perhaps you need to create a separate thread.
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Posted By:
JETUKE
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Date: 2/8/2010 8:51:49 PM |
| I'll take one! I want the tenor neck with a rosewood fretboard and peghed tuners. They have all the parts already. Seems simple enough to me! I think they would be very popular.
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