bborzell
Well-known member
...and it had only just started for me.
So here I am less than a month into my uke thing. Saw Jake in Maui, checked out a uke shop within a fews after returning home and bought a Pono tenor. Been playing every day. Also been noticing that the 7 mandolins, 8 guitars, 2 dobros, 1 weissenborn, 2 electric lap steels and 2 basses (including my 1968 Ric 4001) have been sitting on the sidelines.
So after beginning a search for another tenor (might as well have both G strings at the ready), I start calling around to see if anyone has any remaining stock of the maple/spruce Ponos. I checked out one of the larger and very well known acoustic stringed instrument stores and, after being told that they had sold their last maple/spruce Pono, the guy added with a chuckle that "things have really slowed down after the most recent uke craze came along; it looks to us like it's over so we are not stocking as much as we were earlier".
Well, here I go again. I missed the initial Microsoft public offering as well as Apple. I passed on the Smart cars and don't even ask me about hydroponic tomatoes. And now, it looks like I managed to jump on a passing train that was heading for the last siding.
Oh, well, at least I can hope that manufacturers will continue to make strings for as long as my new uke holds itself together.
So here I am less than a month into my uke thing. Saw Jake in Maui, checked out a uke shop within a fews after returning home and bought a Pono tenor. Been playing every day. Also been noticing that the 7 mandolins, 8 guitars, 2 dobros, 1 weissenborn, 2 electric lap steels and 2 basses (including my 1968 Ric 4001) have been sitting on the sidelines.
So after beginning a search for another tenor (might as well have both G strings at the ready), I start calling around to see if anyone has any remaining stock of the maple/spruce Ponos. I checked out one of the larger and very well known acoustic stringed instrument stores and, after being told that they had sold their last maple/spruce Pono, the guy added with a chuckle that "things have really slowed down after the most recent uke craze came along; it looks to us like it's over so we are not stocking as much as we were earlier".
Well, here I go again. I missed the initial Microsoft public offering as well as Apple. I passed on the Smart cars and don't even ask me about hydroponic tomatoes. And now, it looks like I managed to jump on a passing train that was heading for the last siding.
Oh, well, at least I can hope that manufacturers will continue to make strings for as long as my new uke holds itself together.