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Thanks all. Even though it was for SOTU I thought it had a place here as well. I do like a lot of the 3/2 tunes.

This is not strictly relevant to your query, but twenty years ago a friend showed me a picture of a 'Northern' uke and it inspired me to...

Nice arrangement and beautiful performance!

A fairly basic arrangement of Dunbury Castle from Playford vol 3 done for the latest SOTU season. I kept the accompanying lines very...

The reason I asked for the luthier name is if it was Bruce Wei (which it is not), who I've used for almost 10 years, I would offer to...

Good points. I usually try to look at both sides of an argument. Thinking back on the original question, I suppose it depends on the...

When we are talking about the playing qualities of an instrument, that is so personal. I have had experiences over the years with...

I know of a top quality builder whose name was dragged into muck by someone not happy and that fundamentally changed how he went about...

Your mistake was to not do one at a time, I have made that mistake as well, I now own multiple ukes of the same brand/luthier but...

I don't want to name brands but I have sold ukes which I did not like but the subsequent buyer loved... these include many well known...

If I was you, I would complete the purchase. The other side of the story might be that the luthier was being honest and his/her ukes are...

I've been playing stringed instruments, mainly electric blues for better than 50 years. In my particular case, I've developed pretty...

I tried out my Baroque flute today with about the usual results: it kicked me. The darn thing is really hard to play unless one plays...

Well, I’m after wood from now on, if I buy any more. Yeah, I’m familiar with Peter Schickele, and I’ve got a book about PDQ Bach. I’m...

BTW, Peter Schickele spoke of the early baroque, the high baroque, and in the case of PDQ Bach's work, the go for baroque.