I love Google. It’s about the most fantastically useful product there is and it’s free. And it sends me more people than anyone else. AND it keeps coming up with little gadgets that I can’t help but test out. The latest one I’ve taken advantage of is Google Custom Search to create this:
Google Ukulele Tab and Chord Search
You type in the band or song you want to play on the uke and it searches the trusted ukulele sites for tabs and chords for that song. I haven’t decided whether it’s useful or not. But, it’s there if you want to test it out.
Other Interesting Google Stuff
Google Books has free previews of a number of books. Most exciting is Jim Beloff’s The Ukulele: A Visual History.
Google Patents has plenty of weird and wonderful ukulele inventions such as Maccaferri’s button press chord doohicky and a ukulele on one side/mandolin on the other mashup.
Google Sets is a strange one. You type in a few words and it spits out more words in the same group. I tested it out out with “tenor, soprano, concert” and it came up with the right answer.
Google Experimental Search lets you search ukulele history by date or find places of ukulele interest wherever you are.
It might be possible to use these for non-uke related purposes. Although I’m fairly sure that’s the original intention behind them.
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