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Today, 09:10 AM
The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell
Here's a tune from a fellow Canuck. The only time I ever saw Joni live she was still Joni Anderson and it was at...
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Yesterday, 10:36 PM
All of my low G tenors have a wound G and C string. Depending on the instrument they might be Thomastik CF30 with CF27, Fremont Soloist with...
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Yesterday, 04:50 AM
There is this.
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03-02-2021, 10:40 PM
The Mya Moe could not have gone to a nicer guy. Scott is very enthusiastic and has fallen hard for the baritone ukulele. It is always a treat to meet...
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03-02-2021, 09:29 AM
One of the first songs I learned to accompany on the guitar, from a Burl Ives songbook, in the early days of the Great Folk Scare, was Jack Of...
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03-02-2021, 08:36 AM
There's the old saying:
Dogs think of people as family.
Cats think of people as staff.
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03-01-2021, 01:31 PM
Congratulations that is a beautiful looking instrument. I will second the recommendation for the tenor guitar sub-forum at Mandolin Cafe. Great bunch...
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03-01-2021, 01:00 PM
If you really do want it bad enough you can adapt. I know where you are coming from.......a guitar to soprano is a big difference. But it just takes...
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03-01-2021, 08:09 AM
David Hurd has some good experimental tension data.
https://ukuleles.com/ukuleles/strings/
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03-01-2021, 06:44 AM
I rarely play a uke without a strap, fastened at the butt and either the heel or headstock. With the strap, my ukes will remain in place when I...
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03-01-2021, 06:33 AM
I have never taken that inference from the term "Reentrant". The instrument is tuned that way because it sounds good that way. There are not many...
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03-01-2021, 04:32 AM
Congrats! Recently I went back to look at my first post on these forums. Such a great time and I wish I could go back when I first got it. Don't take...
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02-28-2021, 12:22 PM
Actually, Elmore's solo on Shake Your Money Maker is very different.
I think it's really cool to hear slide ukulele and your two verses were quite...
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02-28-2021, 12:12 PM
The first song that popped into my head was Only A Pawn In Their Game by Bob Dylan. I gave it a shot, but I hated the results. I hope someone else...
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02-27-2021, 08:08 PM
Really nice Joseph.
I recall an interview with Frank Zappa in Guitar Player magazine a few decades ago. He was asked about his favourite players...
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02-27-2021, 06:57 AM
Thanks Joko,
On Christmas day, 1993, my cousin Gerry Milo lost his battle with AIDS at Casey House, a hospice for AIDS patients. Maggie and I have...
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02-26-2021, 08:37 PM
I've looked on Facebook, but can't find it. II found a Ukulele Underground group, but not a SOTU group. Could someone post a link?
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02-26-2021, 08:04 AM
I have a number of banjos and banjoleles and never lie the bridge down. I do have a pencil mark on the heads to facilitate getting the bridge in the...
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02-25-2021, 08:49 PM
If you listened to Loudon's second song, Men, and, especially if you are also a guitar player, you may have noticed that he used a Shubb capo to...
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02-24-2021, 01:34 PM
My Favourite Picture Of You - Guy Clark
I guess I shoulda taken the mint outa my mouth.
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02-22-2021, 05:57 PM
Natalie Wood by Peterborough, Ontario singer/songwriter Cris Cuddy
"Got a picture of a girl, never gonna fall for me."
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02-22-2021, 11:07 AM
Thank you John and plunker. For some reasons ...I kept receiving comment from the same person suggesting some porno sites. Within minutes it get...
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02-22-2021, 07:46 AM
Maybe look up the more common name, breadfruit wood.
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02-21-2021, 04:21 AM
While these days my photography is digital, using my phone, there was a time when I had a darkroom and spent a lot of time with film. I still have...
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02-21-2021, 12:31 AM
As Dohle said above anytime you increase diameter you increase tension. Soprano are the smallest diameter, then concert then tenor. Baritone are...
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02-20-2021, 04:06 PM
Super idea. When are we allowed to post Steve?
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02-20-2021, 01:31 PM
My 11th contribution with a 12 word title. A Bob Dylan song, It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry, a song that's not about laughing,...
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02-19-2021, 05:13 AM
I mentioned to a buddy that I was searching for a tune with a 12 word title and I just got an email with a suggestion of Kinky Friedman's Get Your...
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02-18-2021, 05:19 PM
Since I started on guitar, baritone comes naturally to me. For a while, I had to work at playing the C6 tuned uke.
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02-18-2021, 05:17 PM
Do you mean that you play a G chord while the tenor players are playing a C chord? I don't think you'll get a natural harmony this way. Together...
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- Current stable of ukes.
Sopranos: Islander AS-4, Kala KA-SSLNG spruce top super soprano, Enya X1 pineapple
Concerts : Kamaka HF2-L, Blackbear ULO, Korala plastic uke
Tenors: LFDM spruce & amazon rosewood, I'iwi redwood & walnut, Ko'olau spruce & myrtle, Webber spruce & cocobolo, Blackbird Farallon with radius fretboard sound port and string through bridge, Kimo koa top maple back and side
Baritone: LfdM spruce and bocote. Kamaka HF-4 - 100th anniversary , Mya Moe spruce & cocbolo, Giannini mahogany
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Currently enjoying these ukuleles : *LdfM tenor, *LfdM 19" super tenor. *LfdM baritone, *I'iwi tenor , *Koolau tenor, *Webber tenor, *Kimo tenor, *Kimo super concert, *Mya Moe baritone, *Kamaka baritone, *Gianinni baritone, *Fred Shields walnut pineapple super soprano, *Kala super soprano, *Loprinzi super soprano, *Black bear ULO concert , *Enya X1 concert, *Enya X1 pineapple soprano, *Enya Nova *Gretsch tenor, *Korala plastic concert
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