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Have a safe and happy 4th!

Aaron Walden on "Rally" open back soprano banjo ukulele. Stephen Foster, composer.

Played on Kala 15 S.

This is me playing the spruce topped version of the generic pocket ukes often available on eBay from mainland China.

This is on the Rally soprano open-back banjo ukulele.

Oklahoma fight song, since 1905.

These are a handy way to store your ukuleles, without taking much space. You can buy them from Flea Market Music, but an entry-level ukulele costs about the same.

This is me playing "Billy Boy" which is an old American folksong. I'm using a sort of frailing technique. The ukulele is not a Kala, but a Chinese knockoff brand called Kaka. I wonder who thought Kaka was a good idea for a substitute name for Kala!

This is what a real Maccaferri uke looks like. :D Yeah... yeah... I know we're not talking about wooden knock offs of Maccaferri's plastic ukes. We're talking about wooden ukes based on his wooden guitar design.

It seems to me like rope-style purfling or borders was a big part of the distinctive style in many of the early Hawaiian ukuleles. I wish more makers would build models in this style. I know some do. It is reminiscent of the roots of the instrument in a sailing society.

Have you tried using Aquila iUke strings on a Tom or a Kala pocket ukulele? If so, what tuning did you use?

Glad to be here. Got my first ukulele twenty some years ago, when I was a child, but I never got beyond trying to tune the thing. Several years and instruments later, I have taken it up again.