Recstar24
Well-known member
Hello!
I am very fortunate to be at a school that has agreed to purchase a set of 30 ukuleles for the classroom. Budget is $100 per uke, $3000 total plus accessories, wall mounts, curricular materials, etc.
This is a big investment and I'm very excited to start my kids on this journey, and could use your input and advice!
1) the past few weeks I've played with a few different sizes, and have settled on the concert size - the soprano might be too small for bigger hands, and the tenor too large.
2) I've played with the lanikai tunauke, and am expecting a chance to play a kala ka-c and cordoba 15cm sometime next week or so. I also contacted empire music and they are sending me their classic cl500 which is $50 but I thought it prudent to consider it as a cheaper alternative. Anything else I might want to look at?
3) vendor - I would love to work with a vendor that not only has the inventory to supply me a whole class set, but willing to setup each one for the kids, and have a good customer service rep with repair/service and warranty to help me handle the inevitable issues that will happen with hundreds of kids using these instruments.
4) curricular materials - I really like the ukulele in the classroom series by James hill as it promotes music literacy and music reading, and it fits very nicely into our national music standards. Bruce emery, the skeptical guitarist series has a ukulele from scratch book that I have loved playing and I think would be very accessible to the kids. Jumpin Jim's book of tunes and tips has also been fun and can see the kids enjoying stuff from there. If you have anything else to throw out there in terms of song books, method books, please let me know!
Thanks for taking the time to read my 1st post, and any input you can provide will be greatly appreciated by me and the hundreds of students that this ukulele program will be serving!
I am very fortunate to be at a school that has agreed to purchase a set of 30 ukuleles for the classroom. Budget is $100 per uke, $3000 total plus accessories, wall mounts, curricular materials, etc.
This is a big investment and I'm very excited to start my kids on this journey, and could use your input and advice!
1) the past few weeks I've played with a few different sizes, and have settled on the concert size - the soprano might be too small for bigger hands, and the tenor too large.
2) I've played with the lanikai tunauke, and am expecting a chance to play a kala ka-c and cordoba 15cm sometime next week or so. I also contacted empire music and they are sending me their classic cl500 which is $50 but I thought it prudent to consider it as a cheaper alternative. Anything else I might want to look at?
3) vendor - I would love to work with a vendor that not only has the inventory to supply me a whole class set, but willing to setup each one for the kids, and have a good customer service rep with repair/service and warranty to help me handle the inevitable issues that will happen with hundreds of kids using these instruments.
4) curricular materials - I really like the ukulele in the classroom series by James hill as it promotes music literacy and music reading, and it fits very nicely into our national music standards. Bruce emery, the skeptical guitarist series has a ukulele from scratch book that I have loved playing and I think would be very accessible to the kids. Jumpin Jim's book of tunes and tips has also been fun and can see the kids enjoying stuff from there. If you have anything else to throw out there in terms of song books, method books, please let me know!
Thanks for taking the time to read my 1st post, and any input you can provide will be greatly appreciated by me and the hundreds of students that this ukulele program will be serving!