k0k0peli
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Yet another New Uke Day has rolled around. I will not brag about snagging a classic. I will not accuse those who do mention their expensive acquisitions of snobbery. Yet I am almost afraid to reveal some brand names because they're not masterpieces of the luthier's art. Quite the opposite. But they play and sound nicely, if not exquisitely. For the most part, that matters not. I mostly play in my own home for the amusement of my wife and myself and tolerant visitors, and we're happy with the sounds.
Enough of that. We're at the end of a long road trip, just over one month, shortened by two weeks because of a heat wave in our trajectory. We'll dash home tomorrow. We left with three stringed instruments in our car: Kay A-type mandolin, Kala 6-string tenor uke, and Martin Backpacker guitar. We'll return home with at least ten new acquisitions. I say "at least" because something else could jump out and bite me before tomorrow night. Stranger things have happened.
This being a Uke forum, y'all won't be interested in my four new mandos which range from the sublime to the gorblimey (Celtic, Russian, F-type, and mandola). I've already mentioned the 1920's Martin(?) tiple I got a couple weeks ago. No, I'll just name the new ukes and others. We started with an Alvarez RU22T tenor. During a swap of cases, an Ohana SK-10CR soprano joined us. And today I grabbed three Harmonia axes for US$170 total: a UK-201 concert, a UKLL-2N baritone, and a T-10W Puerto Rican cuatro. All have good voices -- good enough for us, anyway. If we hadn't already stuffed the car with other stuff, I might have also grabbed a guitarron, a tres, and maybe more. Too bad they didn't have a charango and a balalaika.
I'd like to see others here mention inexpensive ukes they're happy with. A few of y'all ARE happy, right?
Enough of that. We're at the end of a long road trip, just over one month, shortened by two weeks because of a heat wave in our trajectory. We'll dash home tomorrow. We left with three stringed instruments in our car: Kay A-type mandolin, Kala 6-string tenor uke, and Martin Backpacker guitar. We'll return home with at least ten new acquisitions. I say "at least" because something else could jump out and bite me before tomorrow night. Stranger things have happened.
This being a Uke forum, y'all won't be interested in my four new mandos which range from the sublime to the gorblimey (Celtic, Russian, F-type, and mandola). I've already mentioned the 1920's Martin(?) tiple I got a couple weeks ago. No, I'll just name the new ukes and others. We started with an Alvarez RU22T tenor. During a swap of cases, an Ohana SK-10CR soprano joined us. And today I grabbed three Harmonia axes for US$170 total: a UK-201 concert, a UKLL-2N baritone, and a T-10W Puerto Rican cuatro. All have good voices -- good enough for us, anyway. If we hadn't already stuffed the car with other stuff, I might have also grabbed a guitarron, a tres, and maybe more. Too bad they didn't have a charango and a balalaika.
I'd like to see others here mention inexpensive ukes they're happy with. A few of y'all ARE happy, right?