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January 25, 2008 · Print This Article

Uke Hunt gets called ‘ace’ in the NME.

James Hill and Chalmers Doane’s new website, Ukulele in the Classroom, is up and running. The site promotes their new series of books aimed at school teachers and pupils. There’s a resources section which includes flashcards and quizzes for you to test your music reading abilities, and a forum. If you want to buy the books, you’ll have to take a trip back to 1997, print out an order form and mail it off.

Amy Crehore Tickler ukulele t-shirtAmy Crehore’s Tickler Ukulele t-shirts are now up for sale. It’s already been mentioned on Boing, Boing, so buy one while they last. I’ve ordered mine already.

CNN covers the UK ukulele craze featuring George Hinchcliffe, Joe Brown and Nipper.

Tiki King visits the NAMM show and brings back pictures of a solid body electric Fluke, a new style 3 Cherry Martin and a pink Flea (which I reckon will be a big seller).

New website for Brüko including a downloads section with wallpapers and tips for beginners.

Ukulele/Tom: new website with indie ukulele chords.

Sex exploitation political and emotional ambiguity: an art ukulele.

Bear Headed Ukulele.

Ukulele Hero.

Cutting your teeth on the ukulele.

How to get beaten up Uke style.

Protests over George Formby’s home being turned into a hotel.

Indulge in the ukulelists favourite sport of guitarist baiting with this hilarious video.

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11 Responses to “Friday Links”

  1. amber on January 26th, 2008 7:09 am

    Holy shoes, you’re in NME? That’s awesome.

  2. Mattiniero on January 26th, 2008 12:33 pm

    NME?! Great note! You ARE an ace!!
    Keep on bloggin’ :-))

    Yours sincerely

    Mattiniero

    –o–

  3. Nelson on January 26th, 2008 4:52 pm

    Recognition!
    ‘grats!

  4. Rayan on January 26th, 2008 6:31 pm

    Congrats on on the appearance in NME!

  5. Joe on January 26th, 2008 7:50 pm

    Haha!

    You owe me for alerting you to the article on your site in NME!

    You certainly deserve to recognised in there!

  6. Woodshed on January 26th, 2008 8:54 pm

    Thanks folks. Next stop: the cover of The Rolling Stone.

    Joe: Yes, I owe you one.

  7. Joe on January 27th, 2008 10:32 am

    haha only joking.

    congrats anyway :D

    thanks

  8. Tom on January 27th, 2008 7:46 pm

    Thanks for the nod, and congrats on NME!

  9. Woodshed on January 27th, 2008 7:53 pm

    You’re welcome, Tom. Good luck with the site. I look forward to seeing more.

  10. Jason on January 28th, 2008 1:48 am

    I have to say that the Ozzy guitar thing had me rolling on the floor! I looked at some of the others and they were just as hilarious. Thanks for finding it, I’ll enjoy forwarding those to my guitar playing friends.

  11. Woodshed on January 28th, 2008 6:54 pm

    Absolutely. It was tough picking one. But Ozzy’s clapping really makes that one.

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