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 OU280SWK features a solid top, back and sides of beautiful Hawaiian Koa harvested on the Big Island of Hawaii. This gloss instrument features a 19 fret ebony fingerboard with dramatic abalone vine inlay, head stock logo, rosette, top binding and back strip inlay. Gold Grover mini-rotomatic deluxe GH305 tuners complement the Koa headstock. A NuBone nut and saddle with ebony bridge and Aquila strings supports one of the most resonating ukuleles in this price class. Deluxe hard shell case included.
