Flight - Pioneer Tenor Cherry Red + Housse

The Flight Pioneer Tenor Cherry Red is the sort of ukulele you can hardly imagine just sitting in a corner of the room. You plug it in, strum a few chords and, almost naturally, your playing takes a different turn.

A riff takes hold, a more driving rhythm, a few notes in the higher registers… the Pioneer invites you to play differently, with that feeling of rediscovering the character of a small electric guitar in your hands.

Its solid mahogany body and glossy Cherry Red finish give it a real visual presence, enhanced by the double cutaway which creates a particularly original silhouette.

The tenor configuration here features 19 frets and a scale length of 432 mm, whilst the rosewood fingerboard provides a comfortable playing surface for more melodic passages. With the zero fret, fixed hardtail bridge and steel strings, the guitar retains that distinctly electric character which is the model’s greatest charm.

Then there are the two humbuckers. By setting the selector switch to one or the other pickup, or to the position between them, you can change the tone without touching your amp.

The two volume controls and two tone controls then allow you to fine-tune the character of the sound: softer for accompanying a song, more cutting when it’s time to take centre stage in front of the band. Whether it’s rock, blues, pop or simply the urge to play something out of the ordinary: the Pioneer is clearly designed for those who want their ukulele to tell a different story.