Flight Nora Steel String Baritone EQ-A

A "Nora" Version Designed to Combine Elegance and Versatility

The Flight Nora Steel String Baritone EQ-A stands out with a high-end approach focused on playing comfort and musicality. Its refined visual identity (mango details, gold tuners, black color) is not merely decorative: it is paired with features designed to serve the musician daily, such as the scalloped cutaway that facilitates access to the highest frets. Together, these elements create an instrument with a strong presence, both at home and under the spotlight.

Who Is This Steel String Baritone For?

Thanks to its steel strings and baritone format, this model naturally appeals to musicians seeking a tighter feel and a more direct response than a nylon ukulele. It is well suited for intermediate players looking for an expressive instrument to accompany, record, and explore fingerpicking, but it can also attract guitarists wanting familiar attack, brightness, and dynamics while enjoying a compact format. Style-wise, it adapts equally well to pop/folk (energetic strumming), fingerstyle atmospheres (defined notes, good separation), and more percussive playing where articulation makes a difference.

A Bright, Articulated Sound Supported by Balanced Luthiery

The solid Sitka spruce top is the centerpiece of the Nora: it delivers a clear attack, a wide dynamic range, and projection that remains clear even when played loudly. Paired with laminated mahogany back and sides, it achieves a very musical balance: warm mids, a present but not heavy low end, and precise highs. The choice of bone nut and saddle enhances vibration transmission, providing more consistent sustain and better note definition, especially appreciated in open chords and melodic lines.

The scalloped mango cutaway improves access to the upper frets without sacrificing playing comfort, and the rosewood fingerboard enhances the feeling of control under the fingers, with a slightly crisper attack and a pleasant touch for slides. Finally, for reliable amplified use, the active Double C1U pickup maintains a clear and usable sound on stage or in the studio, preserving the balance between brightness and warmth characteristic of this spruce/mahogany combination.

Technical specifications

Format	baritone	Nut width	1.50" / 38 mm
Number of frets	19	Position markers	5th, 7th, 10th, 12th, and 15th frets
Top	solid Sitka spruce	Tuners	Flight custom gold
Back and sides	laminated mahogany	Bridge	pin bridge
Cutaway	scalloped mango cutaway	Nut	bone
Purflings	mango	Saddle	bone
Rosette	mango	Pickup	active Double C1U (double pickup)
Color	black	Strings	custom steel set (11, 15, 23W, 30W)
Neck	African mahogany	Gig bag	deluxe padded 0.59" / 15 mm included
Fingerboard	rosewood	Included	sticker pack
Scale length	20.08" / 510 mm	Premium features (recap)	solid spruce top, laminated mahogany back/sides, steel strings, mango purflings, Flight custom gold tuners, rosewood fingerboard, pin bridge, Double C1U pickup