Recent content by Tsaw

Aloha! Found this vintage soprano at a Guitar Center store here in New Jersey and wanted to share. Nope, didn't buy it. It had strings that looked like fishing line from a child's tackle box, felt dirty, and had a big wad of lint/hair in side; as you can imagine it didn't sounds all that...

The US postal service is issuing new stamps honoring legendary Hollywood directors. On the Billy Wilder stamp there's an immage of Marilyn playing the uke; check it out... https://www.usps.com/stamp-collecting/assets/images/469240-01-main-900x695.jpg

Was just reading the Wikipedia entry about Jimi Hendrix and came accross this statement regarding his first guitar: "This guitar replaced both the broomstick he had been strumming in imitation, and a ukulele which his father had found while cleaning a garage." Awesome!! Even Jimi Hendrix was a...

Aloha! I've been strumming my uke coming up with some creative chord progessions (or at least ones that are pleasant to my ear)...but I missed the C string while going for a A7 chord, and caught the E-string on the first fret, and I liked the sound of it; G/C/F/A. I was basically playing an F...

Hi Everyone, I joined UU a little over a month ago, shortly after I got my first uke. My Cordoba 20CM was a birthday gift to myself after a few years of day-dreaming about learning to play. Now that I have one, I day-dream about the next chance I'll have to play it again! But I guess I don't...