The Oscar Schmidt Company was founded in 1871 and incorporated in 1911. By the early 1900s, the company had five factories in Europe and a factory on Ferry Street in Jersey City. They made all kinds of stringed instruments, guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles, zithers, and Autoharps.
Today at Oscar Schmidt, premium woods, quality hardware and modest prices create an ideal instrument. Each is inspected and adjusted in the USA by a skilled technician, your assurance for smooth fret ends, precision low action and resonant sound quality. Unequalled standards in easy playing comfort and tone response creates the perfect value.... Oscar Schmidt.
Mahalo, Hawai'i, for uniting the planet with the melody of your Aloha Spirit. We respectfully submit our Oscar Schmidt Ukuleles, whose collection of voices are crafted of bodies, tops, fret boards and bridges offered in an array of artisan woods, with mother of pearl or abalone inlays and featuring Aquila or GHS strings. This diverse offering promises to resonate all of the island colors.
Oscar Schmidt introduces a hand made select group of classic warm tone and sustaining volume ukeleles reminiscent of a bygone era. The OU245SWK Concert instruments are made of beautiful ribbon striped and solid quartersawn mahogony in Gloss.
Manufactured on the island of Java, these instruments offer a mozaic rope rosette and top binding, a 19 fret flame nyatoh neck with an ebony headstock and bridge. The pearl logo and fingerboard, along with the pearl snowflake inlay complement the instrument design. The models come with deluxe Grover GH305 tuners with ebonite buttons, NuBone nut and saddle and Aquila strings. Deluxe hard shell case included.
