Antebellum Instruments || German Lyra Baritone Ukulele

Jake Wildwood has another Beautiful Baritone...

Read here:

http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2009/02/c1950s-lyra-baritone-ukulele.html

Baritone Stories by Jake Wildwood

Here's one of the pictures from Jake Wildwood's Antebellum Instruments Site. Jake is the genius of restoration and a person that enjoys playing and tinkering on a variety of instruments. He also likes to photograph and document his work. This one has struck my fancy since I have one of these 60's era Harmony Bari's. For more info, see...

http://antebelluminstruments.blogspot.com/2009/09/c1960-harmony-baritone-ukulele.html

Jake Wildwood || Japanese Model Baritone

I go to Jake Wildwood's site, Antebellum Instruments, regularly because he obtains old instruments and returns them to beauty and playability. He then takes a series of photographs and chronicles some history. He also plays each instrument and makes a YT video. Quite a treat. This morning I thought, what about Jake? He must have come across a baritone ukulele sometime although the baritone doesn't quite fit the late 1800's to early 1900's era.

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Jake says, "I simply had to make a cut for you all on this baritone uke before it hits the rack and finds a new home. This is a c.1960s Japanese-built all-solid baritone under the "Carmencita" brand. Back and sides and neck of somewhat flamed Japanese maple, nice spruce top, and checker binding around the soundhole and top. It's sort of a typical import baritone from the time with the exception of the nice solid woods... and the tone... oh my. This thing projects very well and sounds like a decent quality classical guitar."

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Sweetly played Jake! HB (HU)