Features:

  • Kala is known for making quality instruments and is one of the most recognized and sought after ukulele brands in the world.
  • Kala Color Chord Ukulele has color-coded fretboard inlays that show you where to put your fingers to form chords - all designed with the beginner in mind. Measurements- Scale Length: 13.75 inches, Overall Instrument Length: 21 inches, Body Length: 9.25 inches, Number of frets: 12, Width at upper bout: 4.875 inches, Width at lower bout: 6.25 inches, Width at waist: 3.75 inches, Body Depth: 2.25 inches, Fingerboard width at nut: 1.375 inches, Fingerboard width at neck/body joint: 1.625 inches
  • Free Online Lessons with Emily Arrow that are fresh, engaging, and relevant for todays beginner ukulele player.
  • Free Kala Ukulele App with Tuner includes hundreds of songs to follow along with and learn. Comes with high-quality Aquila Nylgut strings from Italy and precise tuning pegs.
  • Patterned after our Waterman Ukulele, the Kala Color Chord Soprano Ukulele is durable and easy to clean - great for students, parents, and teachers!
Kept up with our 20 mile kayak trip

This was such an impressive deal. Super sturdy and great sound. Stays in tune pretty easily. Both of us are picking up the Uke for our first time and it even came with chord chart information and such. Pretty easy to learn. Very fun to have around the house with family. Also, We kayaked 20 miles with this thing. Never loss tuning or dented or scrapped. Not a thing wrong with it. No rust no discoloring nah-dah. Such a great purchase.

5 year old and husband LOVE it!

Bought this ukulele for my 5 year old daughter and she LOVES it! I really like the fact it has the chords marked on the neck, it helps her understand what to do. My husband loves it just as much as my daughter :)

GOOD UKULELE

It a great uke. It is surprisingly really loud which is good if you like to be loud. The strings are very good and with about two days of non stop playing it has stayed in tune pretty well. It also glows in the dark! For it's price I would say it is very good quality and is worth the buy :)

Great starter Uke!

This is a great starter Uke. It holds it's tuning very well, sounds great for being plastic. I got this one because I needed something heavy duty that could occasionally get splattered with mud because I am an outdoor educator. This turned out to be the perfect solution at a really great price.

A very nice ukulele for a plastic ukulele.

In all fairness you cannot set this ukulele in the same class as a wood ukulele. It wouldn't stack up. So I am writing this for its class: An All-Plastic Ukulele. Right out of the package I noticed that it came with Aquila Super Nylgut Strings. Always a plus in my book. The strings are settling in just fine. After tuning and initial retuning(s) the strings settling in and stabilizing just as I would expect from a new uke. The gears appear to be of good to excellent quality. Durability: I would say excellent. Given that it is plastic, it can be a more of a go anywhere type uke and not have to worry about getting splashed. Appearance: Fine Quality appearance for plastic. No odd seams blemishes, scratches or errant glue. Looks well put together for plastic. The color: Black body Aqua-Blue, (what I call 505nm Blue), my favorite. A nice cheerful color. So overall for its class of ukulele: I will give it five stars.

Easily the best plastic ukulele I've ever played..

I'm sort of addicted to giving these aways as gifts- they're easily the best plastic ukes I've ever played on... I mean they don't really compare to a wooden instrument tone-wise, but they sound different in a good way. The single notes and chords sound a bit sweeter. It's a strange tone to come out of so small an instrument.. The "chuck" (percussive sound of the strings as they sound when muted by one or more hands) of the instrument is pretty awful- No vibrancy to the high end to speak of- but the tradeoff is that nice mellow round tone for chords and notes. They almost sound more like an alto than a soprano, to my ear. If I had to focus on one thing to gripe about, it'd be the inconsistency of the build, insofar as I've played three of these now and the action has been different on all three.. One played pretty decently well- the other two were a bit higher- there really is no remedy for the action being too high on such an instrument. Your'e kind of just stuck with it. But all of them I played were playable and sounded decent (as I mentioned, better than any other plastic I've played). Further up on the neck the intonation won't necessarily be great, but what do you want for 40 bucks? It's a waterproof uke, made of plastic, in bright colours, nearly indestructible. I'd probably buy one just to practice uke tricks on- or heck, get three and juggle em ..

Great instrument!

We bought this for eight-year-old and have had it for a little over a month. Out only complaint is that it needs tuning regularly, which our child cannot do on her own. Other reviews and comments, we hear that the more you play the last turning it will need. So we are hoping for that! We love how durable and easy to use this ukulele is. We love the app that can be used along with it. Very worthy purchase!

A pretty swell deal on a ukulele, e'rybody!

I'm just getting back to my ukulele roots, so I thought I'd go find a well-reviewed, affordable uke. Not an el cheapo model, but something that people seem generally happy with. My "research" (reading Amazon reviews, pretty much...) brought me to the Kala Waterman and it's retro charm. At first I was leery of a plastic uke, but it's the real deal, folks. Sounds suitably 50s, a wee bit tinny (as other reviewers have noted) and it does require a little patience with the tuning. It's pretty sturdy, another selling point honestly, and will likely be able to handle what the average outdoorsy ukulele player can throw at it. One word of, well, caution (that word seems a tad too harsh, admittedly...): I bought the "slate grey" version, since I didn't want anything too flashy. The photo provided actually made it look kind of sickly, Frankenstein's Monster-esque green which I didn't entirely dig. But when it arrived, I'm happy to say that "slate grey" is an accurate description of the color. Think the color of a shark in an old Warner Bros' cartoon. Not seasick green at all. Anyhow, if you're still reading this far along, I'd say you've found a good starter uke or a good back-up to your nicer ukulele. Nothing fancy, no frills, and surprisingly decent sound considering the price. Go make some mai tais.

5 star travel uke

So I bought a really nice soprano butterfly wood ukulele and was always worried about bringing it with me to the beach and whatnot. This is perfect for bringing with you anywhere. I haven't tuned it in quite some time and it still sounds good. Not that loud, but definitely loud enough if you're playing it at the beach or around a campfire or something along those lines. I've played it in the shower without any worries (just because I wanted to tested out the waterproof abilities, lol). Also, I've taken it kayaking and it's pretty cool to just hang out in a kayak jamming out on the water. 5 stars and well-deserved

Cool uke! Good quality.

What a cool uke! I bought this for my 16 month old grand child to strum and slap on instead of my wooden ukuleles. I considered the cheaper plastic ones, but this one came with Aquila strings plus the colorful finger markings for first position chords, and it appears to be of pretty good quality for plastic. It seems like a perfect uke for my grand child to grown into an young beginner uke player. I like it so much that I'm considering purchasing one to take backpacking. For me, It would be a lot less worry to take a good quality plastic uke instead of my expensive KoAloha one.

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