Hello fellow ukers!
Remember a while back when I was complaining about all baritone ukes looking a bit the same (don't I love complaining) and when TCK in his infinite kindness jumped in to offer to paint one for me? For free! Amazing (This thread: Where are the quirky-looking baritones?)
Behold: Bluebarriton Levy - the blueberry baritone!
Named after Barrington Levy of "Broader than Broadway" fame, for obvious reasons.
It's a Pono AB Acacia Baritone with a satin finish, bought from the late Music Guy Mic (RIP) at Hawaii Music Supply. It then went on a little spa retreat transit in California at TCK's, where he painted beautiful blueberries on it, and it arrived here in the UK right for my birthday this fall! (Hadn't gotten around to posting about it until now, sorry for the delay)
We had discussed several designs and decided on blueberries because they're one of my favourite things: I'm a Scandi who eats bucket loads of them everyday and also grows her own in her backyard, where I intend to play my bari when the weather allows it. Plus I'm a fan of Elsa Beskow's illustrations (in particular "Peter in Blueberry Land"). And now a total fan of TCK's work as well!
Honestly, I could not be happier with this baritone. It's my favourite uke now. It sounds amazing (Ponos are class, look at this wood!) and TCK did a fantastic job. Totally in love with it!
There was a whole process that TCK did to give the uke a beautiful finish that would last a long time and wouldn't affect the sound, and he did it really well, but he'll explain it better than me.
I put Southcoast Heavy Gauge Round Wounded strings on it, perfect match. It's tuned standard DGBE most of the time, but I sometimes drop the E to D to make it an open G tuning, which is nice for slack key and slide. Since it's a Pono and it comes from HMS, it has perfect intonation and set-up. A real pleasure to play.
Have a look, it's gorgeous init! I tried to take photos that would make it justice but it's a million times prettier in the flesh.
So yeah, THANK YOU TCK !! What a great guy. And thank you UU forum for enabling this to happen! What a wonderful community
Lalz
(PS: For those of you who know, my wrist is much much better now btw. Hurray!)
Remember a while back when I was complaining about all baritone ukes looking a bit the same (don't I love complaining) and when TCK in his infinite kindness jumped in to offer to paint one for me? For free! Amazing (This thread: Where are the quirky-looking baritones?)
Behold: Bluebarriton Levy - the blueberry baritone!
Named after Barrington Levy of "Broader than Broadway" fame, for obvious reasons.
It's a Pono AB Acacia Baritone with a satin finish, bought from the late Music Guy Mic (RIP) at Hawaii Music Supply. It then went on a little spa retreat transit in California at TCK's, where he painted beautiful blueberries on it, and it arrived here in the UK right for my birthday this fall! (Hadn't gotten around to posting about it until now, sorry for the delay)
We had discussed several designs and decided on blueberries because they're one of my favourite things: I'm a Scandi who eats bucket loads of them everyday and also grows her own in her backyard, where I intend to play my bari when the weather allows it. Plus I'm a fan of Elsa Beskow's illustrations (in particular "Peter in Blueberry Land"). And now a total fan of TCK's work as well!
Honestly, I could not be happier with this baritone. It's my favourite uke now. It sounds amazing (Ponos are class, look at this wood!) and TCK did a fantastic job. Totally in love with it!
There was a whole process that TCK did to give the uke a beautiful finish that would last a long time and wouldn't affect the sound, and he did it really well, but he'll explain it better than me.
I put Southcoast Heavy Gauge Round Wounded strings on it, perfect match. It's tuned standard DGBE most of the time, but I sometimes drop the E to D to make it an open G tuning, which is nice for slack key and slide. Since it's a Pono and it comes from HMS, it has perfect intonation and set-up. A real pleasure to play.
Have a look, it's gorgeous init! I tried to take photos that would make it justice but it's a million times prettier in the flesh.
So yeah, THANK YOU TCK !! What a great guy. And thank you UU forum for enabling this to happen! What a wonderful community
Lalz
(PS: For those of you who know, my wrist is much much better now btw. Hurray!)
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