modern day ukuleleist
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...purchasing them.
I live in area with virtually no ukulele dealers (out of the 3 local music stores, including a Guitar Center, there are probably 8-10 ukuleles total, and they're all base model lanikai's or something similar).
So purchasing a ukulele involves reading online reviews, watching youtube clips of the ukulele being played (half of which are made using terrible recording devices, and another quarter of which are made by someone who is playing for the first time and sounds pretty bad).
I've been burned by purchasing an applause ukulele, which has great reviews online, none that I read prior to purchasing mention that it should be exclusively electric because it sounds pretty bad acoustically. I wasted $160 on it and I can't even find someone to buy it for $100 (it has hardly been used).
Rule #1 of buying instruments is playing them in person before buying, but that's just not possible.
EDIT: Now I'm going to buy a Mainland Tenor.
I live in area with virtually no ukulele dealers (out of the 3 local music stores, including a Guitar Center, there are probably 8-10 ukuleles total, and they're all base model lanikai's or something similar).
So purchasing a ukulele involves reading online reviews, watching youtube clips of the ukulele being played (half of which are made using terrible recording devices, and another quarter of which are made by someone who is playing for the first time and sounds pretty bad).
I've been burned by purchasing an applause ukulele, which has great reviews online, none that I read prior to purchasing mention that it should be exclusively electric because it sounds pretty bad acoustically. I wasted $160 on it and I can't even find someone to buy it for $100 (it has hardly been used).
Rule #1 of buying instruments is playing them in person before buying, but that's just not possible.
EDIT: Now I'm going to buy a Mainland Tenor.
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