A Quandary, Have You Been There?

I've been playing for Uke for 7-8 weeks, have a Concert, Tenor and a Baritone. I thought I wanted
a Soprano until I played one, didn't like it. I know I should play more than one but the small small body
did nothing for me. So now I'm thinking mandolin, banjo or four string cigar box. I play alone so
projection and quality tone is not an issue. Have you found yourself in a similar situation-what did you do?

Use the shotgun approach..........just keep buying. Something will step up and suprise you.

Like you I just started playing about 8 weeks ago. I started with the concert, then bought a cheap soprano which got replaced with a better one (the cheap one going to my friends daughter who fell in love with it) and finally a concert Banjolele. I eventually want to get a tenor, maybe a baritone at some point. Another friend just bought a mandolin that he's been playing around with for the past few days. We restrung it this weekend (that was a task!) He eventually wants to get a banjo as well.

Just pick up different instruments in the music store and see how they feel to you. See which ones you love and appeal to you.

WashAshore said:

I've been playing for Uke for 7-8 weeks, have a Concert, Tenor and a Baritone. I thought I wanted
a Soprano until I played one, didn't like it. I know I should play more than one but the small small body
did nothing for me. So now I'm thinking mandolin, banjo or four string cigar box. I play alone so
projection and quality tone is not an issue. Have you found yourself in a similar situation-what did you do?

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Upgrade one of your other ukes trade it in for something really nice. Or spend money on a nice pickup for one of your existing ones. Or save the money for a vacation to hawaii

pixiepurls said:

Upgrade one of your other ukes trade it in for something really nice. Or spend money on a nice pickup for one of your existing ones. Or save the money for a vacation to hawaii

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I have a Tenor that's beyond my playing ability already. I'll take that trip to Hawaii if I can do for
around a hundred bucks, the cost of another instrument.

I have been playing guitar (badly) for about thirty years. I have no real talent, I just like making noise.
Why stink at one instrument when I can stink on a few?

After playing guitar for for almost 50 years, I started playing ukulele about 10 months ago. My first was unknowingly a soprano and very quickly realized it was too small and found that tenor is my size. Within the two weeks I bought three, and over the next three months ended up with eight, mainly because they were really good deals, and I liked the looks of them.

Then I started getting much better and in doing so, realized the shortcomings of the ones I bought, so I traded in three for a much better one. (But my UAS, ukulele acquisition syndrome, still has a hold of me and I very seriously considering selling off a couple more and order a custom made gypsy jazz style, but what's holding me back is I'm just not sure I'm really ready for that yet, either by ability or finances.)

<<<custom made gypsy jazz style>>>

Kohanmike, that is a unique looking instrument--who is the maker?