eddyfinnguy
Well-known member
I work in the music industry, and was a professional touring musician until about 5 years ago. (Irish Music)
Here is a video I did with my band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awF7ZZ-RFPE the lead is my Ex and that pretty much explains the "was a professional musician"
Anyway, I am the kind of person who wants to believe in everything that I sell and know everything that I can about the products. We sell, audio, guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles etc... and at the Summer NAMM 2010 we introduced a banjo uke. So my first step was to talk one of the guys from the Chesboro booth (Eleuke) into showing me how to play it. (I am primarily a guitar player, but I have made it a point to learn how to play everything that we sell. A couple of people in the booth were kind enough to give me a brief tutorial and it was off to the races.
We had started this Eddie Finn Concept and Mim from Mim's Ukes turned me on to the UU!
I got one of our prototype EF ukes to practice on and started learning how to play. I have to say that I was very very suprised at how much fun it is!
Then Alderine walked into our booth on the first day last week and I was very excited by that, in addition I met Tim Szerlong from Ukeeku (and learned how to pronounce it after a couple of days, grin ) Plus Mim and Sally came in to the booth, I met a lot of ukulele people and I have to say after 16 years of doing NAMM shows, this was far and away the most fun I have ever had at one. (I was totally worn out before the show even started, but the fun factor,,, plus a lot of coffee kept me going)
OK, so here I am, I am going to be on the lurk, and hopefully with the help of all of you, my company can improve our uke line and have a better concept of what we can do to contribute to this community.
I am very excited to meet a lot more of you!
Peace, Love and Happiness
Michael
Here is a video I did with my band http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awF7ZZ-RFPE the lead is my Ex and that pretty much explains the "was a professional musician"
Anyway, I am the kind of person who wants to believe in everything that I sell and know everything that I can about the products. We sell, audio, guitars, banjos, mandolins, fiddles etc... and at the Summer NAMM 2010 we introduced a banjo uke. So my first step was to talk one of the guys from the Chesboro booth (Eleuke) into showing me how to play it. (I am primarily a guitar player, but I have made it a point to learn how to play everything that we sell. A couple of people in the booth were kind enough to give me a brief tutorial and it was off to the races.
We had started this Eddie Finn Concept and Mim from Mim's Ukes turned me on to the UU!
I got one of our prototype EF ukes to practice on and started learning how to play. I have to say that I was very very suprised at how much fun it is!
Then Alderine walked into our booth on the first day last week and I was very excited by that, in addition I met Tim Szerlong from Ukeeku (and learned how to pronounce it after a couple of days, grin ) Plus Mim and Sally came in to the booth, I met a lot of ukulele people and I have to say after 16 years of doing NAMM shows, this was far and away the most fun I have ever had at one. (I was totally worn out before the show even started, but the fun factor,,, plus a lot of coffee kept me going)
OK, so here I am, I am going to be on the lurk, and hopefully with the help of all of you, my company can improve our uke line and have a better concept of what we can do to contribute to this community.
I am very excited to meet a lot more of you!
Peace, Love and Happiness
Michael