Martin M610 Premium Polygut Ukulele Strings, Concert

I find these quite nice, once you get past an intial sort of chalky feeling under the fingers. I wipe my palm on the strings up and down the fretboard and that seemed to improve the feel. After a few weeks I don't notice any issues at all wiht playing these. These strings sound good and play well for me. I've tried them on two sopranos and one concert with good success. I did have a C string pop in the case once on a concert ukulele. I have heard that that has hapoened to others as well. As noted in another review these are much like the Aquila carbon black strings that were discountinued, probably due to the deal with Martin. I find these strings have good tone, reasonable sustain, are a bit thinner than some other Aquila strings, and have lasted over a month so far wihtout degradation- except for the one string that broke when the ukulele was in the case. And no, it wasn't wound too tight- like most I use a headstock tuner. I'm a long-time amatuer strummer and have tried a lot of strings over the years and if I didn't have a string pop, I might have given these 5 stars. Martin knows string instruments well, so if they're willing to put their name on these I take some confort in that. Pkus, I really like that Aquilar as a firm and that they are constantly investing in string technology. Thank Aquila and Martin :-).

My Martin OXK laminate Concert came with the clear Martin strings and while the tone was full it had no highs at all. I tried the Premium Martin strings and they transformed the tone of the uke. Still robust and loud, but much more balanced with some highs.

Great service. Great variety of strings. Highly recommend Martin strings for ukulele. Try them if you haven’t.

I was hoping these would be different from the Aquila Carbon Blacks that came and went away. But to me, they are pretty much the same. Color is the same, maybe the sound is improved a bit. I would say they have excellent sustain and ring and volume. And i'm sure they'd make certain ukes sound great. But for me for what i was hoping for, they didn't quite do it for me. The main reason is the feel. They are very noisy under the fingers, making loud enough "swishing" sound like some ground nylons that i hear those first before the string tones and it's distracting. I've played enough of these types that the noise doesn't completely go away.
On top of that, they still feel like playing "wire" as opposed to a string, and that doesn't feel good to me. So i'm glad i got to try these out finally, but probably will not buy again.