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You might be onto something! What it probably comes down to is that they hired engineers with no musical/luthier experience to effectively make a...

Interesting. I'd love to hear it. My 5-string was commissioned as a 5-course evenly spaced and I currently have it tuned dGCEA.

Welll if it looks like a boat paddle, and is shaped like a boat paddle........

Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls...................

I have a number of banjos and banjoleles and never lie the bridge down. I do have a pencil mark on the heads to facilitate getting the bridge in the...

Well, this is the first Week I can recall where the winner could be counted before the host announced it.. Congratulations Brother Jim Yates for...

Looks like it works again today. Thanks to the people who are working hard to keep this forum running.

There is an element of creepiness when watching and listening. Your playing and singing are first rate, as always, and it is great to listen while...

Joy, I wanted to let you know that the UkeLogic strings on my Collings Koa concert made all the difference in the world in sound and feel. Im glad I...

The footage here is from 1988... but increasingly 2021 is looking like this. The world is watching this time. I hope.

Nicely done and sounds great. Think about where this technology will be in a decade.

If I find out anything about it, I'll post it. I think she is going to post it on her website, so I'll keep checking there, but I also am on her...

Hi Everyone, I am excited to let you know things have been going well for Wood Vibrations Music over the past few months. We continue to sell...

Well REAL banjo players might be the best to answer this question, but I leave the bridge up on mine all the time - in the case, and while...

You can add to that the non English characters that you find on other keyboards ( mine is a German language keyboard and one of the funny letters...

I have some birch ply and mahogany door skins. I like the idea of a teardrop better. But I guess I really should finish my other projects first.

I'll admit to not really having considered string tension objectively until very recently. Since I am no longer able to source the strings I've been...

Avoid the Moleskine journals. The paper is not fountain-pen-friendly (feathering, bleed-through, etc.). Rhodia, Clairfontaine, Black-and-Red are all...

Fountain pens are like ukuleles, there are some brands that work out the box and others that need fettling by a professional before they sing....

Instead of using New Posts, use Quick Links and choose Today's Posts. This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly Grove near the Beverly Center...

Sold on Jake's website. For people who already know how to hold their instrument correctly and want to take some pressure off their shoulders.

I'm working on a backpacker uke. My take on Fred Shields design. There's an axiom amongst backpackers: Everything in your pack must have at least...

Thanks for understanding. I just wanted to avoid the possibility of two prolific and competitive seasonistas posting new songs with 17-word titles.....

I'm kind of new to this so if any experienced builders/luthiers see something I have wrong, please correct me. I'm more experienced on setting up my...

This song was inspired by the photograph that serves as the frontispiece to the video. It's of Annie Murray, who as a young lass left her job as a...

There is a lot of debate about this in the guitar world between some people. I have a couple 12 fret guitars that I love and a few 14 fret guitars...

This is my version of Ed Sheeran's song Photograph.

I too have been using the Woodslicer blades from Highland for a few years now and I am quite fond of them.