Timbuck
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Timbuck's "Ukulele Workshop" closed until the "Tour De France" is over.
...the booming uke building cycle may be coming to an end. Here in Hawaii I don't see many new builders at all..
.... the latest ukulele resurgence has legs I think. My perspective is limited, but the ukulele here in California is still surging and demand growing. I attribute this to teaching the uke in schools and the ultimate portability of the instrument. Also players are looking to trade up from their cheap Asian imports.
Get the things into your schools! The future is with the kids. Always was always is.
Not for everyone, but that isn't new. Ukuleles have been around for a long time, and even though a lot of ukuleles ended up in attics and closets along the way, people are still playing them. Ukulele players are never going to go extinct. I think that there is always going to be people buying ukuleles.Playing the Uke will not appeal to everyone, there's a limited number of Ukes that players can buy and house and Ukes have a reasonably long life (assuming that they are cared for). At some point sales will inevitably plateau, well if the previous sentence proves to be true.
Music in schools is the key to keeping music live. From my recollection and experiences here in the UK the teaching of music is rather flawed and hence not at all popular with the children. The Uke is on answer to that, give the kids a Uke and a song book and then build interesting lessons around popular music, stuff they like and relate to. But I divert the conversation and there is a great thread about this already (How to get them to sing, I think).
Have a great break Ken. Really though, with the current run of good weather here, instead of watching others shouldn't you be out on your own bike instead?
surely you're not claiming a Kenyan as a Brit mr timms?Not long to go now..And then it's back to building a couple of sopranos starting first thing tomorrow .. Froome did it again:cheers: .. and I think the French were very impolite booing our Chris just because he beat the Frenchman Bardet in the time trial..time to stick two fingers up at e'm again I think.:nana::nana::nana:
He was Born in Kenya Granted...But He's British to the coresurely you're not claiming a Kenyan as a Brit mr timms?
surely you're not claiming a Kenyan as a Brit mr timms?