Ground Loop
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Hi All! I'm Ground Loop and I just bought a Ukulele. Happy New Year!
So far, I play nothing. The only musical part of my body is my eardrum, which appreciates music quite a bit.
Like many parents, I live vicariously through my kids, so my boy is beginning Guitar lessons young. I'm helping him with practice and such at home, so his younger brother (as 2-year olds do), had to have one as well.
This, right here, is where you'll recognize the story. My wife picked up a up a Mahalo U-30BR for less than $20, just to give him something to pluck while we practiced the real guitar. I figured it was a kids toy, and not a musical instrument. It sounded like a hammered rain spout full of mice, but I humored him and tried to tune it. To do that, I had to go look up Uke tuning, get it wrong twice, and finally stretch the fishing line about right. I tried to make some nonconvulsive noise with it, but failed, and didn't give it much more thought.
A couple months later, we were walking back from a seafood restaurant in Carlsbad and stumbled into Giacoletti Music just to gape at guitars and stuff.
They had a Sunlite Ukulele within child-height reach and I preemptively grabbed it. Hey! This one doesn't sound nearly as bad as the Mahalo. Kinda nice, even. For $50, I had to try it.
I wasn't even home before I realized I probably made an idiot impulse buy, and would soon find the Internet full of scolding admonitions not to touch these.
On the contrary.. I found... nothing at all! Apparently, nobody but me has one of these Sunlites. It's a "US-100" and I don't have any idea how it measures up to the Mahalo's and Dolphins and such. It looks just fine to me. I see it has geared tuning knobs, Aquila strings, Soprano size. I have many questions, but I haven't yet found anything I can blame the Sunlite for.
So here I am.. after midnight, watching Ukulele Mike on YouTube and reading my Got a Uke e-book.
Cheers!
So far, I play nothing. The only musical part of my body is my eardrum, which appreciates music quite a bit.
Like many parents, I live vicariously through my kids, so my boy is beginning Guitar lessons young. I'm helping him with practice and such at home, so his younger brother (as 2-year olds do), had to have one as well.
This, right here, is where you'll recognize the story. My wife picked up a up a Mahalo U-30BR for less than $20, just to give him something to pluck while we practiced the real guitar. I figured it was a kids toy, and not a musical instrument. It sounded like a hammered rain spout full of mice, but I humored him and tried to tune it. To do that, I had to go look up Uke tuning, get it wrong twice, and finally stretch the fishing line about right. I tried to make some nonconvulsive noise with it, but failed, and didn't give it much more thought.
A couple months later, we were walking back from a seafood restaurant in Carlsbad and stumbled into Giacoletti Music just to gape at guitars and stuff.
They had a Sunlite Ukulele within child-height reach and I preemptively grabbed it. Hey! This one doesn't sound nearly as bad as the Mahalo. Kinda nice, even. For $50, I had to try it.
I wasn't even home before I realized I probably made an idiot impulse buy, and would soon find the Internet full of scolding admonitions not to touch these.
On the contrary.. I found... nothing at all! Apparently, nobody but me has one of these Sunlites. It's a "US-100" and I don't have any idea how it measures up to the Mahalo's and Dolphins and such. It looks just fine to me. I see it has geared tuning knobs, Aquila strings, Soprano size. I have many questions, but I haven't yet found anything I can blame the Sunlite for.
So here I am.. after midnight, watching Ukulele Mike on YouTube and reading my Got a Uke e-book.
Cheers!