Comments on: eBay Ukulele Window Shopping: Guitar-a-likes

By: danarchist

danarchist — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:52:46 +0000

Ha, ha! I hummed the same tune to myself many times, Woodshed. I’ll e-mail you some photos, but: All the Spideyness is gone, for better or for worse.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:24 +0000

Alan: Thanks for the list. I think a few people on that list picked the Tele precisely because it’s ‘workaday’. Joe Strummer and Springsteen in particular wouldn’t have played anything too showy.

danarchist: Spider-Uke, Spider-Uke. Does whatever a Spider-Uke does. Sorry, just been watching the Simpsons Movie. I hope we’re going to get to look at and hear Spider-Uke when it’s finished.

By: danarchist

danarchist — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:16:05 +0000

I’m not really into most guitar-alikes either. But, having said that, I’m working on one right now. It was a kid’s Spider-Man electric guitar, with built-in amp and speaker, about to be an electric uke. If I don’t accidently saw it in half, or something.

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 17:55:33 +0000

Some famous Telecaster players:

Joe Strummer
Bruce Springstein
Pete Townsend
George Harrison
Bob Dylan
Vince Gill
Kieth Richards
Muddy Waters
Chrissie Hynde

Sexy, indeed!

By: thedanarchist

thedanarchist — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:43:20 +0000

Ah, so you did. I’m not as dumb as I look, after all. Close, though.

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:57:57 +0000

Hobbit: I love when that sort of thing happens. Or I would if it ever happened to me. Hopefully, one day I’ll come across a gem in junk shop for £10.

thedanarchist: I mentioned the Da Silvas in both threads. So it’s a sequitur.

By: Howlin' Hobbit

Howlin' Hobbit — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:27:20 +0000

The Santo style ukes make my heart go all pit-a-pat too.

I recently helped a friend replace a uke that was crushed by the airlines (NEVER check your ukulele!). We found a used one at the Trading Musician here in Seattle that had that slimmer body style, though it wasn’t of that great an age… somewhere in the 1930’s I believe. It was a no name uke.

Only $300 and sounded fabulous. I still wish I could have afforded it.

By: thedanarchist

thedanarchist — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:39:09 +0000

Oops. My comment about the Santa repro was supposed to be other another topic. Please excuse the non sequitur.

By: thedanarchist

thedanarchist — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:28:25 +0000

I was lucky enough to play one of Mike Da Silva’s Santo reproductions a couple of weeks ago, and I LOVED it. I’m obsessing over it. Not only was it physically beautiful and distinctive, the sound was beautiful and distinctive.
I’m not a good enough uke player or experienced enough uke ear to be a great judge, but I’d say it had “clarity” above all else. Zero howl or mushiness. And amazing projection — the little gal is loud. Why did the uke world ever move away from that body style?

By: Minamin

Minamin — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:15:04 +0000

I like Earnest’s Sputnik the best.

http://www.earnestinstruments.com/sputnik.html