kissing
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I began with ukuleles. Fell in love with it.
Played it day and night. Sometimes I fell asleep with it in my arms.
A few years later, I began taking baby steps into playing guitar.
Guitar, I have always played as a sort of "necessity". The added bass strings gave me more options and I ended up quite liking 6-string fingerpicking.
A few years pass.. and to the present, I got myself an Aria G-Uke (acoustic electric), and I am just totally in love with it!
It gives me the sweet highs of the ukulele (it IS essentially a tenor ukulele body), but also those two bass strings to play with as on a guitar.
At current, I've sold off most of my actual ukuleles, and the G-uke is my main axe.
Guitars have always come and gone in my collection, but they were never seen as an alternative to the ukulele. However, lately I am finding that this Guitalele is more-or-less "The One" for me in terms of an instrument that has everything I want. I find myself grabbing the Guitalele than any other instrument. It doesn't have the bulk of the guitar, yet I find it more satisfying than ukulele.
Have I lost my way?? If I have no more ukuleles in my collection, but just this Guitalele, am I still an Ukulele player? Do I have a right to participate in this forum? Identity crisis. Should there be a Guitalele Underground? (though for sake of alliteration, maybe it should be called Guitalele Ground).
That being said, I've tried several Guitalele-like instruments, and this one by Aria is my favourite so far!
Played it day and night. Sometimes I fell asleep with it in my arms.
A few years later, I began taking baby steps into playing guitar.
Guitar, I have always played as a sort of "necessity". The added bass strings gave me more options and I ended up quite liking 6-string fingerpicking.
A few years pass.. and to the present, I got myself an Aria G-Uke (acoustic electric), and I am just totally in love with it!
It gives me the sweet highs of the ukulele (it IS essentially a tenor ukulele body), but also those two bass strings to play with as on a guitar.
At current, I've sold off most of my actual ukuleles, and the G-uke is my main axe.
Guitars have always come and gone in my collection, but they were never seen as an alternative to the ukulele. However, lately I am finding that this Guitalele is more-or-less "The One" for me in terms of an instrument that has everything I want. I find myself grabbing the Guitalele than any other instrument. It doesn't have the bulk of the guitar, yet I find it more satisfying than ukulele.
Have I lost my way?? If I have no more ukuleles in my collection, but just this Guitalele, am I still an Ukulele player? Do I have a right to participate in this forum? Identity crisis. Should there be a Guitalele Underground? (though for sake of alliteration, maybe it should be called Guitalele Ground).
That being said, I've tried several Guitalele-like instruments, and this one by Aria is my favourite so far!