My first was a Mahalo MT-1. In June of 2013 I was leafing through a Musician's Friend catalogue when I came across it, I bought it for $60 only because it was designed like my Fender Telecaster guitar. I had no intention to play it, just thought it would be cute hanging next to the guitar. About two weeks later I received a postcard from the Los Angeles Music Center announcing their summer series play-along, which I attended in the past for guitar (played for almost 50 years), but this time it was for ukulele. Hey, I have one, I'll sign up.
They required that we know 3 chords, C, G, F, so I started practicing, but I had a lot of difficulty getting my fingers to fit. Doing a little research online, I discovered that it was a soprano, no wonder I couldn't squeeze my fingers together very well. I then went to Sam Ash, tried a concert, then a tenor cutaway, that was the size for me, a Lanikai quilted maple with electronics. So that was the first one I actually used, I sold the Mahalo shortly after. I never touched my guitars again and gave my four to my nephew.
This is Michael Kohan in Los Angeles, Beverly Grove near the Beverly Center
8 tenor cutaway ukes, 4 acoustic bass ukes, 10 solid body bass ukes, 14 mini electric bass guitars (Total: 36)
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