JamieWG
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I am so excited that I just had to share the joy! My Cordoba 20CM arrived this afternoon --- my first uke and a Xmas gift from Hubby. By the time I had to stop to make dinner (and let me tell you, it wasn't easy to stop to make dinner), I'd learned Jake Shimabukuru's arrangement of Yesterday, played through a dozen or so songs from the book The Daily Ukulele, and spent some YouTube time with Ukulele Mike playing Over the Rainbow and some blues. This is ever so much more fun than I thought it would be. Now I can understand the addiction that so many here have experienced.
I'm not ready to do a full-fledged review of the Cordoba 20CM yet. For now, suffice it to say that it exceeds my expectations. It is very cleanly put together and solid, the action is set up almost perfectly, and the sound is fuller than I thought it would be for an instrument in this price range and size. That being said, I don't like the strings that are on it. (Did somebody say it comes strung with Aquila strings?) So I'll change those out tomorrow with an assortment of D'Addarios to see if I can get improved warmth and sustain, and less "pop", and I'll put up a review once I've had a few days with it.
I also love this book, The Daily Ukulele. It's got a fabulous selection of tunes. I especially like that it only has the chord charts at the top of the page for each song. That way, you need to remember the chord names and forms as you read through the pieces, rather than just reading the charts by rote. But if you forget something, you only need to look up to the top of the page to find it. Going through a bunch of these tunes a day will help my guitar-->uke transition immensely.
Many thanks to those of you who took the time to reassure me that my guitar-playing would come in handy in switching over. I can see that it's going to take awhile to wrap my head around the transposition issue, but it's much easier on my hands. It's going to be tough going back to playing guitar! (And yeah, I'm already thinking about a nice tenor....
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Jamie
I'm not ready to do a full-fledged review of the Cordoba 20CM yet. For now, suffice it to say that it exceeds my expectations. It is very cleanly put together and solid, the action is set up almost perfectly, and the sound is fuller than I thought it would be for an instrument in this price range and size. That being said, I don't like the strings that are on it. (Did somebody say it comes strung with Aquila strings?) So I'll change those out tomorrow with an assortment of D'Addarios to see if I can get improved warmth and sustain, and less "pop", and I'll put up a review once I've had a few days with it.
I also love this book, The Daily Ukulele. It's got a fabulous selection of tunes. I especially like that it only has the chord charts at the top of the page for each song. That way, you need to remember the chord names and forms as you read through the pieces, rather than just reading the charts by rote. But if you forget something, you only need to look up to the top of the page to find it. Going through a bunch of these tunes a day will help my guitar-->uke transition immensely.
Many thanks to those of you who took the time to reassure me that my guitar-playing would come in handy in switching over. I can see that it's going to take awhile to wrap my head around the transposition issue, but it's much easier on my hands. It's going to be tough going back to playing guitar! (And yeah, I'm already thinking about a nice tenor....
)Jamie
