Swamp Yankee
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Noooooooo. :wallbash:
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.....
Noooooooo. :wallbash:
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.....
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo
Mommy uke doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.....
This song goes all the way to grand pops and grand moms!
Does this mean we all have to own a family of ukes to play this song?
This thread is funny.. almost all posts indicate.. no one has just one uke
This thread is funny.. almost all posts indicate.. no one has just one uke
I wanted to be a one ukulele man. Early on I went to a music festival and met a woman who was trying to sell some of her's. I think at the time she had thirty or forty of them. I remember playing around with her bamboo concert and thinking that I had one ukulele and that was all I needed. She tried to sell it to me, even insisted that I take it home, play it, and if I liked it I could send her a check. There was never any talk about returning it. In fact, her parting words were to keep it as long as I wanted. I had it for months, and I even got admonished by some here for "borrowing" it and not giving it back. I did finally did get it back to her. That was my introduction to having more than one, although at the time I considered myself a one ukulele man. I guess I must have convinced myself that because the one belonged to someone else that it didn't count. Maybe that is why I kept it so long, the nobility of claiming one and the fun, or to another way of thinking of it, the convenience of having two. A win all around.I have only one, Ohana solid top mahogany laminate back and sides. Temporarily Strung low g c e and low a (cuatro tuning thanks to a ken Middleton video).
I have a larger steel string ukulele with six single string courses but I don’t count that.
Having only one uke leads to a lot of agonising about finding the perfect tuning. I am always terrified about undoing all the fretting I have learned and does it really sound better? Should I tune so I can easily switch to guitar or easily switch to accompanying by nieces and nephews on their ukuleles? If I had two or three I could experiment and compare but multiple instruments would not be uxorially acceptable.
I have a few of those as well. People who can claim one ukulele because they bought one and didn't stick with it long enough even to talk themselves into another.I have friends with 1 uke and they are the really occasional and super casual players. Like not even once a month?
I strive to be a one uke guy. Then I get another and another. Then I feel guilty and start getting rid of some until at some point I no longer feels guilty. Then I start looking for something new to own again. I realised I will never be a one uke guy. Now I strive to be a 3 ukes guy. I think I should be able to make it this time.
I wanted to be a one ukulele man. Early on I went to a music festival and met a woman who was trying to sell some of her's. I think at the time she had thirty or forty of them. I remember playing around with her bamboo concert and thinking that I had one ukulele and that was all I needed. She tried to sell it to me, even insisted that I take it home, play it, and if I liked it I could send her a check. There was never any talk about returning it. In fact, her parting words were to keep it as long as I wanted.
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I have a few of those as well. People who can claim one ukulele because they bought one and didn't stick with it long enough even to talk themselves into another.
Austin, the mental process you describe sounds very familiar to me, and I suspect it sounds familiar to a lot of our friends on here as well!