Rllink
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A comment on another post sort of prompted me. I know that a lot of people value their ukes and are planning to pass them down when they are gone. In my case I'm realistically sure that none of my kids want them. In fact, my son was in the basement over the holidays and I asked him which one in particular he would like when I'm gone and said none of them. If there is any fight it will be over power tools, not musical instruments.
My mom before she passed went around the house putting little pieces of tape on the bottom of stuff with someone's name on everything she wanted to pass down to us. My sister went around and gathered it all up and put them in piles according to who it was supposed to go to. I think one of the saddest things with her passing was to stand there and look at my pile of junk that she wanted me to have.
So I think about it at times. I'm not young. I have not made any plans to pass any uke to any specific kid. I guess if they want one the can take one. I'm pretty sure they won't fight over them. That goes for my other instruments too. They will most likely all just get sold. Writing this makes me think that is perhaps it would be nice if they put them in UU to sell so that my friends here get first shot at them. I think I might make a note of that for them. I'll also put a good price on them for you all. The kids won't know the difference.
My mom before she passed went around the house putting little pieces of tape on the bottom of stuff with someone's name on everything she wanted to pass down to us. My sister went around and gathered it all up and put them in piles according to who it was supposed to go to. I think one of the saddest things with her passing was to stand there and look at my pile of junk that she wanted me to have.
So I think about it at times. I'm not young. I have not made any plans to pass any uke to any specific kid. I guess if they want one the can take one. I'm pretty sure they won't fight over them. That goes for my other instruments too. They will most likely all just get sold. Writing this makes me think that is perhaps it would be nice if they put them in UU to sell so that my friends here get first shot at them. I think I might make a note of that for them. I'll also put a good price on them for you all. The kids won't know the difference.