EARNEST INSTRUMENTS are created for musicians who require functional, distinctive, high quality tools for making music. These are not your garden variety music store axes, but uncommon musical instruments designed to meet the needs of innovative players looking for something a little different. Rather than build reproductions of standard manufactured items, EARNEST combines time-tested styles and designs to create unique, original instruments with a classic appearance. Every effort is made to build the finest sounding and playing instruments. Their expense results from the quality of the materials and workmanship rather than unnecessary detail or excessive ornamentation. Materials are chosen for utility, tone, and appearance. Domestic and lesser known exotic tonewoods are favored over rare, overpriced, and often endangered species. Natural and manufactured materials are combined with appropriate adhesives and fasteners, at optimum humidity, to insure the stability and durability of the instruments. Earnest Instruments are built for a lifetime of music making!

Clifton A. Edwards (June 14, 1895 – July 17, 1971), also known as “Ukelele Ike”, was an American singer and voice actor who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1920s and early 1930s, specializing in jazzy renditions of pop standards and novelty tunes. He had a number-one hit with “Singin’ In The Rain” in 1929. He also did voices for animated cartoons later in his career, and is best known as the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney’s Pinocchio (1940).

Danish Tobias Elof has in few years gone from a life as a hopeful young musician to have achieved more than most - touring Europe, Asia and Hawaii, nominated for two Danish Music Awards and admitted to the music academy as the first in world - with the 'ukulele in his hands.

Born and raised on the island of Oahu, Pat (Palika, in Hawaiian) is a master of Hawaiian ukulele. Pat has performed professionally throughout the United States as a live entertainer and also as a studio vocalist and musician. He has appeared onstage with top entertainers at concerts in Hawaii and on the Mainland. As a solo entertainer or with one of several musical groups with which he appears regularly Pat has headlined at restaurants and nightclubs and has performed at hundreds of weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, retirement parties, luaus, corporate events, and other special occasions.