Notes · 2026-11-02
What counts as an electric ukulele here, and how records are made
Electric means steel strings and magnetic pickups, like an electric guitar. Acoustic ukuleles with a piezo under the saddle are listed separately for contrast. Where the facts and photos come from.
This is a note from the site itself, not from the owner. The owner’s own posts will follow.
What “electric” means on this site
An electric ukulele, the way the owner has collected them for decades, is electric the way an electric guitar is electric:
- Magnetic pickups: humbuckers, single coils, P-style, split coils. A coil sensing a steel string.
- Steel strings, because a magnetic pickup hears nothing from nylon.
- A solid or chambered body, played through an amp.
That is the directory. The electric ukuleles page lists every one we can document.
What it does not mean
Most of what shops sell as “electric ukulele” is an acoustic ukulele with a piezo element under the saddle and a preamp in the side. Nylon or fluorocarbon strings, an acoustic body, a jack. The U-Bass family with rubbery polyurethane strings and a piezo is the same idea in bass form. Good instruments, many of them, but not electric in the sense above.
They are kept on the plugged-in acoustics shelf, clearly labelled, so the difference is visible and so a search for a piezo model still lands somewhere honest. Each record states its pickup type and string material at the top.
Where the facts come from
Every record restates the maker’s own product page, with the page’s address and the date it was read. If the maker’s page could not be reached, a large shop’s product page stands in and the record says so. A fact that was not on the page is not in the record; it appears under Not on the page instead.
Prices are the figure on the page that day, marked list or street. They move.
Where the photos come from
The photo on a record is the maker’s own product photo, shown from the maker’s site and credited with a link. It is not copied or re-hosted; it stays the maker’s. If a maker’s site has no usable photo, the record says “no photo” rather than borrowing one from elsewhere.
Adding an instrument
Email the address on the about page with the maker’s product page. Small builders of real electrics are the reason this site exists.