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In case anyone is interested, there's a rather prominent ukulele in this Monday's episode of How I Met Your Mother, "How Your Mother Met Me." Its role is largely symbolic, but the Mother character plays it (not very well) at one point. Despite her problematic strumming skills, she comes out...

I posted this one a few days ago. I may just have a bit of a problem with the fact that these days, no story seems to be without a love plot. I appreciate a good love story as much as the next person, but there are actually other kinds of stories, and not all of them need angsty nuzzling...

I posted a couple of songs last night. Here's one of them. The title probably more or less tells you what it's about.

This one may bear a bit of explaining. There's been a bit of controversy in the geek community about the idea of the "fake geek" in general (the person accused of jumping on the geek bandwagon because it's currently trendy to be geeky), but there has been a particularly vicious focus on the...

...Yeah. So I've had an album out for a few months now. If you're interested, here's the link. I would embed it here, but that doesn't actually seem to be possible. It's free to listen to, so hurrah. And yes, it really is called Beowulf Pulled My Arm Off. Basic rundown: I write geeky...

I am feeling silly today. Have an original song:

Here's a bit of silliness--kazoo solo included--I posted yesterday: I tried to include the ukulele in the frame this time. I record videos in a very constricted space, so this was the best I could do.

I have just taken delivery of WaverlyStreet ukulele #208, a concert banjo uke with an Orange Osage neck, zebrawood fingerboard, and molded plastic pot. It both looks and sounds quite lovely; I'm happy with it thus far. The fingerboard is especially striking, and while it may make some people a...

In acknowledgement of Valentine's Day, here's an original song I posted online recently: Yes, it is a teeny bit parodic, so please don't attempt to reach through your computer monitor and strangle me. I do play real bluegrass with my band; it's one of my favourite musical genres.

Hi, everyone. I haven't posted in this folder before today, mostly because of fear. It is also fear that kept me from putting my stuff on YouTube before last week. However, I have quite a few original songs because I do actually perform in public regularly, so I have finally bowed to peer...

I just came across this hauntingly beautiful version of "Little Boxes," of all songs, and thought you guys might be interested. This is what cigar-box ukuleles are for.

This thread is a supplement to the "average age" one. I've often wondered how many people on this site self-identify as "veteran" uke players and how many see themselves as "new" uke players. So...were you playing the uke long before the relatively recent meteoric rise of the uke? Did you...

It has not been a good weekend, as I lost my voice completely on Friday and have found myself having to communicate mostly via mime ever since. However, Friday was also the day Canada Post attempted to bring me my Boat Paddle, which I had picked up from the Marketplace. As I was out when it...

Ukulele Alert: Jonathan Coulton's new "Still Alive" music video features JoCo himself playing a Makala. ("Still Alive," for those who don't know, is the song that plays over the credits of the video game Portal. Coulton is known for his very, very geeky songs, which have been known to deal...

Okay...the two-finger thread has got me curious. (I don't mean to poach from that thread; in fact, I would like to avoid steering it off course.) If you pick, how do you pick? How many fingers do you use, and in what configuration? Do you have one rigid method, or do you experiment? Are you...

I have had this with almost every new ukulele I have ever encountered. Is it just me, or do others share this little piece of weirdness? It goes something like this: 1) I buy a uke, either from a store or online. If it's from a store, I probably haven't played it for long; I get flustered...

So my little soprano has lost its bridge, and I would quite like to get it fixed without having to ship it across the border to the maker, inconveniencing both of us and costing a silly amount of money for shipping. I have called The Twelfth Fret, which is the logical place to go here for...

Purely for fun: here's me playing "The Toronto Song" by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. My bit starts at about 9:30 of the video; the previous nine minutes and thirty seconds are devoted to a reading by an author of horror fiction (this all happened at an event put on by a group of Canadian...

So yesterday, I was working on my computer when I heard this loud "KAPOW" sort of noise. When I glanced at my soprano uke, which I had been playing earlier and which was leaning against the piano bench, I found that the bridge had come unglued so suddenly and violently that it had flown across...

The uke I bought from tattwo arrived yesterday, and since it is rather special, I wanted to share it with you. It's a myrtlewood concert pineapple built by tattwo himself. Pictures are below. Also, I've made a terrible, terrible recording, full of background noise that is probably at least...