UKISOCIETY
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There's a disturbing trend of people in the ukulele community that think 4 strings are too many.
Read, watch and be shocked!!
Read, watch and be shocked!!
Article: The ukulele subversives
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Alan, the UCB website opened up for me, and I read the text, but the pictures/videos never opened....
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UKISOCIETY
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Weird. Thy should be embedded. I'll put links on the page too.
haole
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Some ukes actually sound best with no strings.
Tried again from a different computer, and it worked fine this time. That Joni Mitchell piece was wonderful! I've seen dulcimer played a few times before, but never with the percussion incorperated....
Ukeffect
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Tinyguitars built my tenor CBU, and he makes great stuff! I like the way he plays, too! I think that dulciuke is for sale (arggh, too late durn it Alan!)...now if he could only set it up like an eleuke w/MP3 inputs and headphone jack....hmmmm!?! Wow Joni ! I always wondered how to "chunk" on a dulcimer!
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Ahnko Honu
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Russians (Balalaika), and the Japanese (Shamisen) have been doing it with 3 strings for centuries. There's nothing new under the sun.
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Fixed it for you.
Russians (Balalaika), and the Japanese (Shamisen) have been doing it with 3 strings for centuries. There's nothing new under the son.
Seriously, once I "got it" so to speak about the G and the A, I discovered the C and E, kind of like the first time. You can find more "instruments" in various 3 string ways of looking at a ukulele...almost like you're forced to...and it also starts to just happen.
jungleturtle
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My first stringed instrument was an old banjo with only one string on it that my uncle left at our house when I was 5 or 6 yrs old. I used to run my finger up & down the frets & pick out melodies; mostly stuff like Mary Had a Little Lamb & Twinkle Twinkle.
the52blues
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Here's my homemade "Canjo" (3 strings on half a hockey stick and a dollar store pie plate basically) It is fretted and tuned like a dulcimer and kinda fun to play....the kids like it!
uke5417
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I enjoyed Grumpy's take on ukubiquity. Just so many rebels in Che Guevara T-shirts.
KamakOzzie
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Russians (Balalaika), and the Japanese (Shamisen) have been doing it with 3 strings for centuries. There's nothing new under the sun.
Anybody ever heard "Bluegrass" shamisen? Solo about 2:10 into song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ojMvbauSQ
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