Reports and videos of new ukuleles are filtering in from the big NAMM. Cali Rose has a report here. Fretboard Journal talks about the Collings Guitars’ new uke and you can see it played here. Here’s a picture of a $7,000 ukulele. And here Derick Sebastian checks out the Fender ukulele. If you’re anywhere near […]

Cocoon – Chupee (Chords) In case you were mislead by my ineptitude yesterday, nominations for Ukulele Video of the Year close on the 27th January (not the day before they opened as I previously stated). This year’s winner of the always fiercely fought Hat Wearer of the Year Award is chipswow for her fine work […]

I get asked quite a few questions about various repair and restoration questions and I am absolutely the worst person to ask about anything practical. I don’t even open a wine bottle without a fully stocked first aid kit and three fully trained medical professionals on standby. So I’ve enlisted the help of instrument repairer […]

Man, there are a lot of ukulele videos being uploaded. It seems like the rate their being added goes up every week. Which makes the choice of Ukulele Video of the Year even harder than it was last year (when Sweetafton came out on top). Luckily, it’s not down to me. For the first stage, […]

No doubt about my favourite guitar riff of 2008: Vampire Weekend’s A-Punk. And it fits great on the uke as well. I’ve arranged it for D tuning (for the original key) but you can play it in C tuning with a capo on the second fret or just have it two frets lower. MIDI The […]

If you need any evidence of the increase in people buying ukuleles, just look at the number of new models of ukulele that have come out in the last year or two. And now the biggest name in the guitar world has entered the field and brought out their first ukes. Today Fender are launching […]

Dent May and His Magnificent Ukulele – Oh, Paris! (Chords) Awards season is upon us and time for scatter-shot awards for my favourite things from last year with a category structure loosely based on that of the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party. This years winner of the 2008 Noah & the Whale ‘God are you […]

Part two of the UkeTube includes videos from Bosco and Honey, Ken Middleton and another killer song from Sarah Kinlaw. You can find part 1 here.

With all the videos built up over my break, I couldn’t put them all in one post without breaking the internet. So this first part includes hilarity courtesy of Taylor Mac, Paulina Sinaga and Jen Kwok’s parody of Britney Spears’s Circus; along with top notch songs from tUnE-YaRdS and Emily Wells (why have I not […]

I hope you all got a ukulele for Christmas. I bought myself an Ohana TK-35G (full review coming up). And it’s lucky I bought my own present as my brother bought me a Mahalo Flying-V. Bless him, but it’s the worst ukulele I’ve ever laid hands on. So right now I’m purely window shopping. Here’s […]