Cook Islands Ukulele

Ron

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Down our way this is a common sound:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEfcp87F0Bw&feature=related
I've seen these called Cook Islands Ukuleles and tahitian Ukuleles.
Haven't seen any discussion of then here on UU. Quite a different construction. Sound hole is in the back and the are sometimes a thin hollow cosntriction and sometimes basically a solid body - with a hole right through the body - wide at the front and small at the back. A wooden resonator is inserted on the frontside. Tuned GCEA but with a high E
 
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aha. Oughta improve my search technique.
It's probably the same thisg as when I hear bagpipes and my Scots blood comes to the surface - but when I hear that eight string, woody sounding fast strum my heart just swells (not that i have any Rarotongan genes - it's just being brought up in the Sth Pacific, i guess)
 
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