Favorite Ukelele Myths
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Skrik
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"The ukulele is a toy guitar."
AverseBliss
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"It's just a children's toy"
The part that I enjoy/don't enjoy is listening to others (and myself) not want to spend "big bucks" on a $600 uke and then end up with how many $200 "options."
Actually maybe Uke Myth Number 1:
"Strumming is easy."
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RevWill
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The ukulele is easy to play.
It's easy to get started making music on the ukulele. You can attain a reasonable level of accompaniment skill (basic strums, basic chords) very quickly. However, mastery of the instrument is a whole different ballgame. Playing like Jake, Lyle Ritz, Ohta-San, Brittni, Aldrine, Taimane, or John King is really dang hard.
I can get away with more sloppiness on the guitar. The uke forces me to clean up my technique.
It's easy to get started making music on the ukulele. You can attain a reasonable level of accompaniment skill (basic strums, basic chords) very quickly. However, mastery of the instrument is a whole different ballgame. Playing like Jake, Lyle Ritz, Ohta-San, Brittni, Aldrine, Taimane, or John King is really dang hard.
I can get away with more sloppiness on the guitar. The uke forces me to clean up my technique.
afeistyfiesta
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So so true...in 6 years of playing guitar, I spent less time working on technique than I have in the last year playing ukulele. There's not a lot of leeway in just 3 strings...Also the range of tone is so much smaller, that you need to be super clean for it to sound as good. At least that's been my experience.
All of these myths are true. Especially the multiple cheap ukuleles, and especially the "you don't need another ukulele".
All of these myths are true. Especially the multiple cheap ukuleles, and especially the "you don't need another ukulele".
haole
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"You start on a soprano and graduate to a tenor."
beeejums
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Guys with big fingers should stick to tenors.
My wedding ring fits around my wife's big toe and I am on a big sopranino kick right now.
My wedding ring fits around my wife's big toe and I am on a big sopranino kick right now.
SailorQwest
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The "best" Ukulele is the ______, with ______ strings.
The reverse is true.
Here comes a biggie:
"The ukelele needs to be 'taken more seriously.'"
Did Roy Smeck "take the uke more seriously?"
As I type these words, the body of my uke rests under my chin like a violin.
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haole
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Y'know, I don't think I've ever met anyone who is physically incapable of playing a certain size uke because their fingers are too big/too small. Howlin' Hobbit has huge sausage fingers and prefers smaller ukes, and I know plenty of really small folks who can handle a full-size guitar so it's hard to imagine them having trouble with a tenor uke.
"The soprano is tuned just like the concert or tenor, only higher pitched"
"Tiny Tim killed the popularity of the uke in the US"
"Tiny Tim killed the popularity of the uke in the US"
I could go on and on about this topic for days. This gets "sold" to people...
grammy
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Buying another uke will help your UAS
StereoJoker
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"You can only play Hawaiian music on the ukulele if you don't want to be cast aside as a novelty act."
Someone actually said that to me (or something to that effect, anyway). It was a pretty lame thing to say, but I've noticed a lot of folk uneducated in the ways of the uke who think along similar lines. It bugs me.
Someone actually said that to me (or something to that effect, anyway). It was a pretty lame thing to say, but I've noticed a lot of folk uneducated in the ways of the uke who think along similar lines. It bugs me.
Paul December
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The ukulele signed a pact with the devil so an earthquake is on its way.
wheelgunner
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You mean this is a MYTH? Boy am I in trouble! I went from buying them to help my UAS to trying (mostly unsuccessfully) to build them. I thought that those eight ukes around the house were going to cure me of UAS any time now. Guess I'll have to scroung up the money to buy/build a couple more.
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