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These are very sweet, high quality ukuleles and your price is very good IMO. If I didn't already own a KTS-4, and if I wasn't already waiting for a...

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02-16-2019, 02:11 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Crazy, but does anyone else see an image in their grain pattern? in Uke Talk

pfft... anyone can see that's Ernest Hemingway.

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02-15-2019, 09:34 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

Thanks for the feedback. Is there anything in particular you see that puts its earliest date in the late 40s?

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02-15-2019, 08:55 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Crazy, but does anyone else see an image in their grain pattern? in Uke Talk

I will admit that it does appear to be a dragon that is not wholly lacking in certain moose-like characteristics.

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02-15-2019, 08:31 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

No guesses as to year of manufacture?

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02-14-2019, 09:49 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Ever buy 2 of the same uke? in Uke Talk

Cool! the new one has an image of the bride of Frankenstein wearing a gas mask, and the cutaway has one of those Ancient alien depictions from a cave...

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02-14-2019, 09:43 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Crazy, but does anyone else see an image in their grain pattern? in Uke Talk

Clearly, it's a dragon.. and the people Jerry sees are not walking around, they're writhing in the flames of the dragon's wrath.

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02-14-2019, 07:31 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Ukulele strumming a form of exercise in Uke Talk

Trust me, calling what I do "exercise" is still a stretch, even if it's less of a stretch than your carido-strumming

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02-14-2019, 04:00 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Newly bought ukes - changing to low G tuning in Uke Talk

many times I've changed a low G :shudder: to high G and typically, I just change the one offensive string.

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02-14-2019, 03:57 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Ukulele strumming a form of exercise in Uke Talk

I put an ebony end pin and strap button on that Cordoba tenor you sent me. So now I can put on a strap and get some exercise dancing around while I'm...

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02-14-2019, 02:50 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

Something I found on the internets re: Bergstrom Music, 'In 1907, James W. Bergstrom of the Bergstrom Music Co. of Honolulu, spent time making...

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02-13-2019, 03:43 PM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

I think I made out reasonably well. I'm overjoyed that it's such a wonderful player as it is! The biggest fly in the ointment, so to speak: some...

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02-13-2019, 03:05 PM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

mo' pics https://www.hangoutstorage.com/banjohangout.org/storage/photos/large/70/7068-4239161322019.jpg ...

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02-13-2019, 03:03 PM

Swamp Yankee started a thread NUD vintage Martin Concert in Uke Talk

Just came in today - it's got a few cracks that look like they've been there for years. It's got a lot of finish crazing...but it plays like it's...

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02-13-2019, 02:01 PM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Kiwaya KTS-4 Solid Koa Soprano in Ukulele Marketplace

PM sent....

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02-12-2019, 03:10 PM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread I Can Resist Everything Except Temptaion in Uke Talk

serious buzz kill :D

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02-12-2019, 12:06 PM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread I Can Resist Everything Except Temptaion in Uke Talk

We'd miss you if you weren't... and I would post ukuleles in MA Craigslists to tease you ;)

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02-12-2019, 11:57 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread I Can Resist Everything Except Temptaion in Uke Talk

what Ziret said ;) As I read it, I was half expecting you to use your essay as an anouncement that you were leaving us. But to be totally free...

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02-12-2019, 07:48 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Favoritist Uke Brands! in Uke Talk

My Kiwaya KTC-1 is my favorite stringed instrument, ever.

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02-11-2019, 06:02 AM

Swamp Yankee replied to a thread Tenors with a larger than average body? in Uke Talk

I had a Pono ATD that was quite a bit larger than the Islander MST-4 and Cordoba 24T tenors that I owned at the same time, especially the Cordoba....

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