The ukulele, that is.
Does anyone else play the ukulele upside down?
A strange question you may say, and you'd be correct, so let me explain.
Many years ago (around 35) I started to learn to play the ukulele. It wasn't nearly so popular back then and there weren't the book for learners that there are now. In fact the only book I could find was of chord diagrams for both D and C tunings. The drawings (no photographs) had the nut at the top and I had to decide which way up it should go. Yes, I know now that the ukulele I bought should have told me, and that I should have swapped the strings over, being left handed, but I didn't think of either of those things back then. The upshot was I learned all the chords the wrong way up without realising (they sounded OK). When I realised my mistake it was too late to start again so I simply kept things as they were. It does mean that I can borrow a right hander's ukulele and play it straight away, and tabs make more sense to me that way up.
Am I unique?
Does anyone else play the ukulele upside down?
A strange question you may say, and you'd be correct, so let me explain.
Many years ago (around 35) I started to learn to play the ukulele. It wasn't nearly so popular back then and there weren't the book for learners that there are now. In fact the only book I could find was of chord diagrams for both D and C tunings. The drawings (no photographs) had the nut at the top and I had to decide which way up it should go. Yes, I know now that the ukulele I bought should have told me, and that I should have swapped the strings over, being left handed, but I didn't think of either of those things back then. The upshot was I learned all the chords the wrong way up without realising (they sounded OK). When I realised my mistake it was too late to start again so I simply kept things as they were. It does mean that I can borrow a right hander's ukulele and play it straight away, and tabs make more sense to me that way up.
Am I unique?