Down Up Dick
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What's more important to you, having a great looking/sounding ukulele, or learning to play the ukulele really, really well? ld:
What's more important to you, having a great looking/sounding ukulele, or learning to play the ukulele really, really well? ld:
.I don't want to say both but I guess it would, #1a good playing uke, #2 a good sounding uke, #3 learning to play. An easy playing uke is number #1 as long as it has a good sound. If a uke does not sound good to me I will NOT play it so then I will not get better.
I do strive to expand my skills and get better all the time but the instrument must perform or I am not captivated enough to put in the time to improve. Making music must move me, when it does it is magic.
I would settle playing a cheap Uke for a year ... if the Uke Fairy bestowed on me the skill of Kalei Gamaio.
Hands down.
Ya know, I think many of us make Uke playing way more difficult than it need be. When I started a while back, I just planned on strumming my very old pineapple Uke and singing, but I'm waaaaay past that now. I might be happier with my Uke/singing if I had stuck to it, but we don't seem to be able to just be satisfied.
There's something about Ukes that make one want more and more. I don't think many trumpet or clarinet or violin players have 20 instruments.
I think UAS and tinkering is just part of uking. ld:
i think the better of a player one becomes, the better of an ukulele you want to play.
Yes, a really good player can make an okay ukulele sound good. But a good ukulele makes everybody sound better.
I wonder how many Ukes Jake has . . . ld:
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Well, Name Bro, your answer stimulates my curiosity even more.
What is a good playing Uke? They all have four (of the very, very best) strings, and, surely, they should be well set up. But I can't see why one would play better than another.
It's true that some Ukes sound better than others, but if the sound is reasonably good, one could still make good music with it or at least learn with it.
I think Rllink had the right idea. He bought a Uke, learned how to play it and then bought a better, nicer one. Now, I admit that I didn't do that myself. I gave in to UAS just as most everyone else does, but I sorta wish I hadn't. I
really feel that I have more Ukes than I need. There's no doubt about it, of course, some Ukes can be very beautiful and nice to look at, but, if one cannot play them well, they're just great looking knick-knacks.
Alas, it's very difficult to ignore UAS. ld:
Don't know...............but George Harrison supposedly had one for every room in his house. I believe Friar Park (George's house) is 65=/- rooms. Also not counting his homes in L.A., Hawaii.I wonder how many Ukes Jake has . . . ld: