Hello from upstate New York

Yokosmom · Mar 10, 2017

I've been playing mountain dulcimer for the past few years, but have started getting tempted into branching out into uke-dom. I plan to buy my first uke in the next week or so (have one more store to scope out). So many brands!

bikemech · Mar 10, 2017

You won't regret it. Welcome to UU!

Croaky Keith · Mar 10, 2017

Welcome aboard.

ksiegel · Mar 11, 2017

Hi, Yokosmom!

What part of Upstate? It is a pretty large area!

I'm near Albany (Well, near-ish...)

Yokosmom · Mar 11, 2017

I'm in the Binghamton area, so quite a bit south of you. You are right--upstate covers a lot of ground! I have heard that there is a uke group in the Ithaca area. I may check them out eventually.

ksiegel · Mar 11, 2017

Yokosmom said:
I'm in the Binghamton area, so quite a bit south of you. You are right--upstate covers a lot of ground! I have heard that there is a uke group in the Ithaca area. I may check them out eventually.

Well, you've got company in your area, then! Check out this thread:

http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?125692-Hello-from-Upstate-NY

Doctroid · Mar 11, 2017

Couple groups in Syracuse:

http://www.syrauke.org/
https://www.saltcityukulele.org/

Something of a haul but I do it in the other direction for other recreation pretty often.

Yokosmom · Mar 11, 2017

ksiegel said:
Well, you've got company in your area, then! Check out this thread:

http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/showthread.php?125692-Hello-from-Upstate-NY

Haha. I work with that poster. I spied his office ukulele this week and that's what gave me incentive to finally go out and purchase one. Which I did today! I got a Kala KA CEM concert. It's beautiful.

frugalaudio · Mar 12, 2017

Lived in Binghamton myself back in the '90s. Cheers.

Yokosmom said:
I'm in the Binghamton area, so quite a bit south of you. You are right--upstate covers a lot of ground! I have heard that there is a uke group in the Ithaca area. I may check them out eventually.

Yokosmom · Mar 12, 2017

Couple groups in Syracuse:

http://www.syrauke.org/
https://www.saltcityukulele.org/

Thanks for letting me know the options. I may try the Ithaca group first, but good to know there are backups.

Uke Shillelagh · Apr 6, 2017

Yokosmom said:
Thanks for letting me know the options. I may try the Ithaca group first, but good to know there are backups.

Hi Yokosmom,

I'm from the Binghamton area also. A couple of my coworkers at the university - one of whom is also a dulcimer player - just bought ukes. We have been talking about getting a group together. PM me if you think you might be interested. We are individually taking private lessons, but would like to benefit from playing with a group. We just kinda need someone who knows how to play to help us along.

We are also going to check out the Ithaca group, but it would nice to have locals to play with.

Uke Shillelagh

Yokosmom · Apr 9, 2017

Turns out Uke Shillelagh is in the office next to mine. The peril of using nicknames! There are three of us in the same workplace who just started playing ukulele. We want to start a group, but we'll need someone who actually knows how to play....

ksiegel · Apr 10, 2017

Yokosmom said:
We want to start a group, but we'll need someone who actually knows how to play....

Why? You can start a group to learn, and then just have fun sharing videos, and invite anyone who wants to join you.

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