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.
The OU250BELL is a reissue of a vintage Washburn "bell" shape ukulele popular in the 1920s. It features a solid Trembesi top, back and sides with ivory cellulose body binding, abalone logo, rosette and fret dot inlays. The ukulele has deluxe Grover GH305 tuners with ebonite buttons, NuBone nut and saddle and GHS strings. Deluxe hard shell case included.
