rock_and_roll_camera
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I know that this has been covered countless times on here but I saw for myself today how the ukulele is overtaking guitar and recorder at schools. My bus route home from work takes me past a primary school, and I guess today the kids had music on the timetable. I saw two little girls, bith different ages and heading in different directions from the school carrying ukes. They both had red Mahalo sopranos, in the trade mark colour matched carry bags. Just made me smile!
And they were leaving school at the same time as all the other kids so it's not an after school class thing or anything, they are actually being taught it in school. How cool is that!? The fact that they had the same make and colour ukes made me think that perhaps the school buys them and passes them onto the kids, so everybody has the same, y'know?...
I was a little concered though, the older girl had her uke shoved in her backpack, neck first, with the body sticking out the top. Just had an image of it falling it out, or breaking in her bag...
And they were leaving school at the same time as all the other kids so it's not an after school class thing or anything, they are actually being taught it in school. How cool is that!? The fact that they had the same make and colour ukes made me think that perhaps the school buys them and passes them onto the kids, so everybody has the same, y'know?...
I was a little concered though, the older girl had her uke shoved in her backpack, neck first, with the body sticking out the top. Just had an image of it falling it out, or breaking in her bag...