Hi everyone and thanks for the add to this great resource. I’m 65, retired and adding yet another hobby. This all started a few weeks ago when I was finally cleaning out some boxes of my Mom’s old stuff we had stored for many years and found…my Dads old Kay Ukulele! This was the same Ukulele that I had brought in to play at Show & Tell in 2nd grade! My guess is that it’s between 60 - 70 years old as I don’t remember when he first got it. It was in rough shape, but I cleaned it up, put some Aquila strings on it and started tuning it. And kept tuning it for about a week before the strings stopped stretching so much.
I don’t remember much of how to play, but my wife does and has a Lanikai ACST-S and I’ve been using hers to get started since the Kay has such a tiny fretboard width. I’m now looking to buy my own and after several trips to local music shops I think a tenor would be best suited for me to learn. I’m doing a ton of research online since there are no Uke shops around here in the Northeast US and music store offerings tend to be rather poor. I’ll post some questions soon in the beginners or buying tips boards. I’ll leave you with this pic of the newly resurrected Kay Ukelele and some old guy.
-John
I don’t remember much of how to play, but my wife does and has a Lanikai ACST-S and I’ve been using hers to get started since the Kay has such a tiny fretboard width. I’m now looking to buy my own and after several trips to local music shops I think a tenor would be best suited for me to learn. I’m doing a ton of research online since there are no Uke shops around here in the Northeast US and music store offerings tend to be rather poor. I’ll post some questions soon in the beginners or buying tips boards. I’ll leave you with this pic of the newly resurrected Kay Ukelele and some old guy.
-John
Enjoy the hunt!
