Nickie
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Yesterday, I had gone out and played a song for a 90 year old hospice patient. She is blind and almost deaf, but she recognized my instrumental version of Aura Lee.
Then, after promising to return at a later date, I rushed to the next ALF. As I tuned my uke (again, the heat and humidity here is merciless to my uke), and set it on my lap to look at my patient list, the darn g string popped.
"Dammit" I sighed, but picked it up and thought "The show must go on".
I went and played for numerous other hospice patients and their housemates, telling them what happened and that I was only 3/4 there.
It worked out fine. One young aide walked up to me and said "You're awesome, I love your playing, will you come back?"
I was amazed that no one could even tell, if they could, they sure didn't seem to care.
Maybe a 3 string ukulele is ok!
I sure am glad I have another uke, because we had a show to do today at a museum, and I really didn't want to stretch a new set of strings, or even one string during a gig!
I have just justified owning more than one uke....
Then, after promising to return at a later date, I rushed to the next ALF. As I tuned my uke (again, the heat and humidity here is merciless to my uke), and set it on my lap to look at my patient list, the darn g string popped.
"Dammit" I sighed, but picked it up and thought "The show must go on".
I went and played for numerous other hospice patients and their housemates, telling them what happened and that I was only 3/4 there.
It worked out fine. One young aide walked up to me and said "You're awesome, I love your playing, will you come back?"
I was amazed that no one could even tell, if they could, they sure didn't seem to care.
Maybe a 3 string ukulele is ok!
I sure am glad I have another uke, because we had a show to do today at a museum, and I really didn't want to stretch a new set of strings, or even one string during a gig!
I have just justified owning more than one uke....