Who are the great soprano players?

Piecomics · Oct 30, 2015

Just curious, most of the people I hear tend to play tenors... The only soprano player I know who definitely is a soprano player (I hope I'm right) is john King.

I've been playing the tenor but lately have been enjoying the sound of the soprano, curious who else I should check out?

janeray1940 · Oct 30, 2015

Herb Ohta Sr. (Ohta-San, not junior) plays a Martin soprano.

Rodney. · Oct 30, 2015

Ohta-San the Great, I turn into zen-mode when he speaks, and into admire-mode when he plays.

Tootler · Oct 30, 2015

George Formby, Phil Doleman

brimmer · Oct 30, 2015

John King and Ohta-san. And Roy Smeck. Actually John King played concert sized ukes too.

Of the youtube players, there's zaza and a great player named George Elmes.

NewKid · Oct 30, 2015

AJ Leonard #1. Steve Martin on the beach in "The Jerk" #2 (although that was the great Lyle Ritz playing)

Then there was a great player here on UU called EugeneUkulele who is still pretty awesome.

Sanfe · Oct 31, 2015

brimmer said:
… and a great player named George Elmes.

I've been admiring this kid for a while. WTH. His covers are played with precision and his originals are beautiful too.

Ukulele Eddie · Oct 31, 2015

brimmer said:
John King and Ohta-san. And Roy Smeck. Actually John King played concert sized ukes too.

Of the youtube players, there's zaza and a great player named George Elmes.

Elmes is amazing. So thankful that somebody is still rockin' a soprano like the kings of old. I attended a Jake Shimabukuro concert this week (Malibu, Thursday night). After the show, Jake greeted all the attendees in the lobby. I asked him to please consider making a soprano album and a baritone album before retiring. He said he'd add it to the bucket list, LOL.

Sanfe · Oct 31, 2015

Ukulele Eddie said:
I attended a Jake Shimabukuro concert this week (Malibu, Thursday night).

Wow, really? Man, I'm so out of the loop, I missed that. My wife would have loved to have gone. We first bumped into Jake like 10 years ago at NAMM.

phil_doleman · Nov 1, 2015

Thanks for the mention, Tootler! George Elmes and Remco (Ukulelezaza) are indeed brilliant, as is Chris Hough (from Ukulele Uff and Lonesome Dave).
In fact, there's a great video of Remco and Chris together, but it's on Facebook.

Who are the great soprano players?

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