This is a lovely, warm sounding baritone from ‘Oli, with a rounded, rich sound full of woody bass, paired with some sweetness from the solid cedar at the top. That cedar is from a special reserve of very stiff, well seasoned wood from Oregon, specially selected by Andrew Kitakis, who owns the Oli brand. Whether I could pick out a pile of wood and decide it was a particularly fine batch, I doubt, but he certainly can and this is a beautifully resonant instrument with fine sustain.

Because this baritone ukulele has such a long name, it might be worth decoding that code! The X refers to its X-bracing. The 1, because it’s in the ‘1 tier’ of their levels of finish (i.e. more bling than the base models but not as wild as the 2’s). The supply of this cedar is limited, and therefore it gets an ‘SP’, meaning it is a special edition. Then you have B for baritone. C for cedar top. And MH for mahogany back and sides. The S is the finish, which is satin.

That all makes sense apart from the fact the interior label has X1SP-BCM-S in it… with just M for mahogany rather than their usual MH. But it definitely IS an X1SP-BCMH-S. Man, don’t codes make everything so boring! Thankfully, the sound is anything but, and the subtle-yet-classy looks, with that satin finish and decorative purfling, mean it doesn’t look half bad either.

This baritone from Oli has excellent Gotoh UPT rear facing tuners, a 37mm nut width and comes with a fab hard case as well.

At the bottom of the page there are options you can easily add to an order. It’s important to note that these appear on every page, whether you need them or not. And in the case of this ‘Oli baritone ukulele, you’re looking at strap buttons as really the only thing you might need. This has a hard case so don’t get another! And a gig bag seems irrelevant given you have the hard case. Low G’s are mentioned but this is DGBE tuning which has a low G already. So you can ignore that too!