Jupiter Creek, RISA, G-String
June 27, 2008 · Print This Article
There have been three Jupiter Creek ukuleles crop up on eBay this week. The baritone has gone already, but you still have a shot at a concert and a tenor. There’s also a soprano for sale on eBay France.
It’s not often you see RISAs on eBay, but there’s a Meltocaster on there right now. It’s a guitarlele rather than a uke, though. And I still can’t quite come to terms with that shape.
The RISA isn’t the only strangely shaped ukulele on eBay at the moment. There are ukes shaped like a biscuit tin (strangely inelegant for a Lyon and Healy ukulele), a teardrop (I’m pretty sure that’s also a Lyon and Healy: a Venetian ukulele) and, best of all, an aeroplane.
It’s not often that there’s a ukulele I’m lusting after more than one shaped like an aeroplane, but this week that’s the case. MGM has a James Hill Signature JSM-2 ukulele up for sale right now (made by G String). I can always kid myself that if I had one, I’d play just like James Hill and no one can prove otherwise.
There’s a banjo ukulele collector who’s selling off his collection on eBay UK. There’s a Gibson UB3, a Maybell, a Bruno (made by Harmony ukuleles and an Avalon. All look very well cared for.
Most ridiculous ukulele/cavaquinho of the week: Del Vecchio Resonator. Even more strange than the uke itself is the video that’s presumably made to help sell it.
If this is your first visit here, you can find the chords/tab in those posts by clicking on the song title in red.
That resonator video is… something else. I hope that it’s strung left-handed.
I want to see a video, or at least photograph of someone playing an aero uke. It seems the right wing would hit you in the chin, while the left wing would take sucker-punches below the belt.
that resonator video….. tuning it might help?
goood lord, its something else really, i bet it would sound quite nice properly tuned up though.
daaammnnn
do i get an apple mac laptop or ….THE JAMES HILL UKE
mmmmmmm damn i wish i was rich
That poor, poor resonator. I wish I had a little extra money so I could save it from it’s torturers.
Minamin: I assume it’s strung left handed. Even then, somethings very wrong.
Cardboardfrog: It probably does sound pretty good. There’s a clip of a Del Vecchio resonator guitar here.
Deadeye: Uke. Every time ;)
amber: I say we round up a couple of Black Hawk helicopters and rescue it old school.