ichadwick
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Anyone know anything about Norman ukes? I know the company makes guitars, but are the ukes just rebranded laminates?
Probably, but I don't think he's been reading this thread - it wouldn't be like him not to chime in about a uke he owns.
That reminds me, I own a Northern!!
Northern also made a traditionally shaped concert model based on the Martin concert uke.
The Northern ukuleles were made in Japan and imported into Canada from the mid '70s through to the early 80s by a company called Northern Audio Musical Enterprises, or N.A.M.E.
This company was owned by a gentleman named Harry Dunnett, who collaborated with J. Chalmers Doane on these instruments.
Both the triangular-shaped and the concert-shaped ukes were imported under the Northern brand.
Mr. Dunnett sold N.A.M.E. in the early '80s, at which time a number of the Northern ukes were acquired by luthier Paul Saunders.
Anyway, they are remarkably good-sounding instruments for a "cheap" ukulele.
Is her full name Eileen Dover?
Do you have to thread the strings through the pukas (holes) in the head or can you bypass and go straight from nut to tuning keys?