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Today, 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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Today, 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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Yesterday, 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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Yesterday, 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
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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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02-18-2021, 10:54 AM
My 10th contribution with a 11 word title: Lonnie Donegan's Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?
for all you Skiffle...
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02-18-2021, 10:28 AM
WHERE DID ROBINSON CRUSOE GO WITH FRIDAY ON SATURDAY NIGHT? Sam M. Lewis / Joe Young / George W. Meyer 1916
My 9th contribution with a 10 word...
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02-17-2021, 12:21 PM
I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore by Woody Guthrie - a 9 word title for my 10th contribution.
Woody was inspired to write this song after...
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02-16-2021, 03:15 PM
He has a lovely voice and what he plays on the ukulele is a perfect backup to that voice. I only wish he'd taken the time to learn the words. His...
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02-16-2021, 12:20 PM
My seventh entry into this Season, an eight word title - The Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me, written by N. Swanstone, Charles R. McCarron and...
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02-16-2021, 11:37 AM
My 6th entry into this thread with a 7 word title, the old gospel song Just A Little While To Stay Here.
Mahalia Jackson does a wonderful version...
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02-16-2021, 04:06 AM
Quote Originally Posted by Steedy View Post
I've always found things remarkably nice here at UU, although a recent thread about clip-on tuners got a...
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02-15-2021, 07:22 PM
I have bought singles at Long & McQuade in Canada. Most music stores will sell single strings.
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02-15-2021, 11:34 AM
Come On Up To The House - Tom Waits
This is my 5th contribution, a six word title. It has a chorus for you to sing along on.
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02-15-2021, 09:54 AM
Ever Since The World Ended - Mose Allison
My fourth contribution to this season with a five word title.
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02-15-2021, 09:29 AM
Bird On The Wire - Leonard Cohen
This is my third offering, hence the four word title; a song from a fellow Canuck.
I dragged out the tiple for...
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02-14-2021, 11:46 PM
String by Mail sells florocarbon singles from Pyramid (huge selection of gauges) Savarez and GHS. All my tenors and baritone have wound strings on...
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02-14-2021, 04:27 PM
Streets Of London - Ralph McTell
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02-14-2021, 01:13 PM
Charlie Poole's Goodbye Booze
Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers
Al Kirby, Zeke Mazurek and I had an old timey group a decade or so...
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About DownUpDave
- Biography:
- 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
- Location:
- Pickering, ON, Canada
- Interests:
- Golfing, fishing, camping, canoeing, skiing cycling anything outdoors
- Occupation:
- Sales rep.
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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