Recent content by jimavery

(I love to play) My Ukulele, as sung by Max Bygraves I'm never quite sure whether it's intended as affectionate or disdainful parody, but I do enjoy playing it.

Thanks for bringing this topic up. I was only pondering the other day whether B7 played as 2322 is an inversion of B7 played as 4320 or not (on a re-entrant C6 tuned uke). Of course after those explanations the answer is evident... To paraphrase the late great Eric Morecambe, those are the...

My socks help reduce the complaints about my banjo ukulele playing. I literally "put a sock in it".

It depends what you mean by "small". I've owned a few small amps which turned out to be too small, and landed with this Orange Crush Acoustic 30 which does everything I need it to very nicely https://orangeamps.com/crush-acoustic-30/

Thanks Mike, the transposing (in Songbook app on Android) worked flawlessly, although actually playing an iUke for about two hours was an experience I won't want to repeat in a hurry. The low light of the evening was Wendy saying "Hey Jim, you've got a small one!". Next month will be the turn...

Some of my five ukes almost never get played, so I've decided to take each one, in turn, to my local monthly ukulele jam. Today it'll be the turn of my little Aquila iUke. It's tuned CFAD, so I've loaded up all the songs into Songbook in chordpro format on my tablet so I can transpose on the...

It's horses for courses. A tenor will give you more frets, probably better intonation, but some chord shapes are more of a stretch. A soprano is more readily portable. Logic dictates that a concert gives you a compromise between the two ends of the spectrum, but my feeling is it's therefore a...

I see Ortega are now producing electro-acoustic ukes with the electrics rechargeable with USB-C. This one is also a left-handed model, even better! So I hope the trend for manufacturers to offer at least some of their range in left-handed configuration will continue to improve in 2024...

My resolution is simply to not let studying for graded exams spoil my enjoyment of ukulele. Practically that means I'm going take the grade 4 exam in January then blast through grade 5 as quickly as I can so I can then enjoy learning from some of the amazing sheet music I've bought recently by...

On reflection, the ability to see who all the reactions are from addresses the issue I mentioned, so "as is" works well thanks. 😀

I think that seeing as someone can respond to a post with an angry emoticon, it's important for the author to be able to counter it with a cheerful one. Or, to put it another way, if you aren't going to permit the OP to like their own post, then please remove all of the negative responses allowed.

It looks to me like there's nothing keeping the bush in place at the front, so I would guess a mallet is the tool you need for that job. 🔨

Yes, figure of 8. When installing the knot into the slot, I aim to have the tail pointing inwards so it doesn't catch the sleeve of my shirt or jumper when strumming.

1. Yes there's a table of contents so you can click through there to any song. 2. I can't tell you how Google actually store them (you view them online), but you can export them as either ePub or PDF, albeit 'protected' so you can only view them using an Adobe application called "Digital...

I purchased a couple of those in Google Play Store, which works well for me, but I don't jam with them. Reading the books in the Chrome browser works very well, only I don't believe it will stop your screen from shutting down to save power, so you may want to adjust those settings on your PC to...