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Eleuke Giveaway
339April 1, 2010 by Tim
I am going to giveaway the Eleuke that I just reviewed to one lucky reader.
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Eleuke Concert Full Review
37March 23, 2010 by Tim
Imagine if back in the day when Led Zeppelin was forming and Jimmy Page decided that his main instrument would be a ukulele!!! If that did happen, and Eleuke was making these ukuleles, he would have played it. I think Led Zeppelin would have been even bigger than they were!…….. Maybe not, But it would have been cool to see.
When someone says ukulele most think of the standard design of a 3 inch deep hollow box with a wood neck, with the wood grain showing, and friction tuners. They don’t think of a 1/2″ thick solid sparkle blue ukulele with a cut away body, geared tuners, no sound hole, and 3 jacks in the end. But why NOT! Uke players can rock out with the best of them gosh darn it!!! (Gotta keep it family friendly) And with the personal MP3 player input you can rock out along with the best of them without disturbing the whole house when you use the built in amp with your headphones plugged in
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Ukestar Ukulele Strap Review
8March 11, 2010 by Tim
Most guitar players have a strap for their guitar, especially electric guitar players. Guitars are big and most people can’t hold a guitar while standing and play it (Unless you are my friend Paul, he is weird). Ukuleles are small; you can wedge it between your belly and your arm and still play it just fine, right?
The answer is yes and no. On one hand you can simply hold it with your arm and gut. It is light and that is what a lot of people do, perfectly fine, but……….. -
New Ukulele Player Magazine Issue
4February 16, 2010 by Tim
I read every issue cover to cover. This one looks as awesome as the past issues. On a side note, I wish they had a place to sign-up for an e-mail when they have new issues.
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Papas Boxes Concert Build: The Build
1December 31, 2009 by Tim
Well here I am ending the year with a built, and by no means finished, cigar box ukulele. In all this project took me a few more weeks than I thought it would. Part of it was life and part of it were things that I did not expect while building this crazy thing. Below I will talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. (Most of it good with the ugly things stemming from my issues)
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Papas Boxes Concert Build: The Box
1December 22, 2009 by Tim
Being that the cigar box is the main part of a cigar box ukulele I felt I had to make it really interesting and fun. Since I used a box that never held a cigar in its life I also had to make it look like a cigar box, but how to do that is a challenge. On the other hand since it was not a real cigar box it gave me a great opportunity to do whatever I wanted, so I did!
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Papas Boxes Concert Build
2December 4, 2009 by Tim
A month or so ago the kind folks at Papas Boxes sent me an e-mail saying that they were back to taking orders again. On a whim I e-mailed them and told them about my blog and they responded really quickly and asked what size, I went with concert. Not very many people have seen the soprano cigar box ukulele that I made 2 years ago, but I found the kit on EBay and it was basically a fret board, rough neck, floating bridge, and zither pins for tuning, Very basic and well-made kit. It played ok and the tuning was a little hard to do, so I bought the tuner kit and also replaced the bridge that came with it with a Grover 4 string banjo bridge. Now it plays really well and is a ton of fun. That is one of the best things about the kit. You can either put it together and play, or keep changing it and adjusting it until it is what you want.
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Oscar Schmidt OU-2 Deal $49.99 Shipped
Leave a commentNovember 6, 2009 by Tim
So….I gat an e-mail from JR.com about black friday deals. I guess they are doing “deals” on every Friday of Novemeber. Well today they happen to have a ukulele. This is a place where I buy a lot of my electronics, but hey its a pretty good price.
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Ukulele Straps
6July 9, 2009 by Tim
How do you strap your instrument on? Do you have leather straps? Nylon? Pink fur? Or do you prefer to …
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Oscar Schmidt OU7T No Strings Attached Review
8July 1, 2009 by Tim
Today we are looking at an Oscar Schmidt Spalted Mango Tenor (OU7T). This being a No Strings Attached Review I will not be rating this instrument. This Tenor is one of the 10 ukuleles I had the pleasure to play while I was at the U.S. Music Corp. factory recently
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