Joyful Uke
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I play them all regularly, but none leave the house because I never play publicly. That makes it an easy decision.
Sharing your best uke with new friends is one of the great pleasures of owning a nice ukulele. Obviously you need to be careful, but you should try sharing your best ukes with new friends and see how much better it works for you. There are times when the weather or conditions where there is a high risk of too much sun or snow and you would not take your best uke. But most uke events are indoors, and set up so you can easily look after your instrument. Also if you are in a group where people share their ukes, you get to play and feel all the other ukes.
A second consideration is that often you will eventually want to sell your uke. The best market is among the people who you have shared it with. They don't need photos or sound files, they have played the instrument. The more people who know about it, the easier it will be to pass on to a new home without a lot of effort. Keeping a uke at home under your bed just creates a suspicion that there is something wrong with it in the eyes of prospective buyers who are every where.
Many makers like to see their ukes out and about and being played. They are happy to repair a nice uke that has some road damage incurred while using the uke to play music as opposed to fixing a crack caused by hiding it under your bed without humidification.
Glad I wasn't at that uke festival.
No, but at the Antelope Valley Uke Fest last weekend I popped into a Uke Fun workshop for a peek and everyone was standing in a circle and Daniel Ward and
Heidi Swedberg were telling everyone to remove their straps and rotate their ukes around the circle on cue so that everyone got a chance to play everyone else's and I wondered about dropped ukes.
Sharing your best uke with new friends is one of the great pleasures of owning a nice ukulele.
Also, sometimes, I hear their fingernails scratching against or dragging across the soundboard when they strum or fingerpick. Makes me cringe every time.
So far, I haven't been brave enough to take my aNueNue Moonbird Tenor out of the house.
On the other side of it, does anyone have one that is so crappy that they wouldn't get caught in public playing it? I've had three of those.
I have a James Hill tenor and a Collings koa concert that I haven't brought anywhere, yet.
Correction Jerry, you brought that James Hill to camp one Saturday and you let me play it. Remember, I said, if you ever want to sell it, please let me know first? :drool:
On the other side of it, does anyone have one that is so crappy that they wouldn't get caught in public playing it? I've had three of those.