The soprano pineapple, like the traditional ukulele, is the standard size. Even more so than the standard ukulele. It is very rare to find a pineapple ukulele in any other size.

Best Beginner’s Soprano Pineapple

For a beginner, there are two great choice of pineapple ukulele: the Lanikai LU-21P and the Makala Pineapple. Both of them are decent, playable ukuleles at a really good price. In particular, I would recommend getting a Makala beginner’s pack from musicguymic. It includes all the stuff you need to get started and it will be set up correctly (ukuleles that aren’t set up correctly can cause a great many headaches for beginners).

Best Upper-Range Pineapples

The two best pineapples around are produced by the much-respected Hawaiian makers Pono and KoAloha. The ukulele in the video above is a KoAloha, so you can hear how good it sounds. But neither of these ukuleles come cheap. They are both in the $500 ball-park.

Vintage Pineapple Sopranos

Obviously the most prized pineapple sopranos are the original Kamaka pineapples. They do crop up with some regularity on eBay and you can pick them up for a reasonable price (certainly reasonable compared to vintage Martin ukuleles and the like).

Concert pineapple ukuleles are very few and far between. As far as I know, there are none in the entry-level price range. In fact the only two I know of are those demonstrated in this video: the Pono Spalted Mango Pineapple and the Mele Mahogany Pineapple. Neither of the are particularly cheap, but the certainly sound and look good.

The only other option I know of is the Pineapple Flea ukulele. The flea does come in concert size and it does have the pineapple decoration. The shape, while similar, isn’t the traditional pineapple shape though.

As far as I’m aware, there’s only one tenor size pineapple ukulele available. But it’s certainly a great one.

KoAloha’s Pineapple Sunday ukulele was the first in their ‘Special Series’ of ukuleles to be released. It does look incredible. Rather than just the pineapple shape with some decoration, this ukulele is actually shaped like a pineapple complete with leaves and a sectioned top.

In the video gx9901doublex plays his version of Jake Shimabukuro’s Let’s Dance on his KoAloha Pineapple Sunday.