Feb/6/09
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Ukulele Window Shopping: Pono Pineapple, Orcas Ukulele Strings

Plenty of ukuleles this week to make me wonder whether it was a good idea to send all my money to the Palin Political Action Committee.

More of MGM’s NAMM finds this week including a seriously sexy spalted curly mango pineapple ukulele from Pono and Orcas ukulele strings (big in Japan apparently).

Rare chance to buy an Island Surf Fluke.

If you’re bidding on this “beautifully made and wonderfull tone” ukulele on eBay UK, be careful. It looks like an Antoniotsai which usually go cheaper than the current bidding price and have a pretty poor reputation.

Why aren’t all tuners metronome/tuners?

Ukulele kitsch of the week: vintage Hakata Hawaiian Urasaki dolls.

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  1. byjimini February 6th, 2009 8:35 pm

    Hmm, nothing that tickles my fancy. I’m still looking for something to go alongside my Greg Bennett UK-60, as the only other ukes I own are a Richwood Pineapple Soprano and the horrid V-shape Mahalo (for display purposes). I did buy an Eleuke but not only was it broken inside, I just wasn’t happy with the quality of the thing for £150, you know?

    I keep looking for the LU-21’s you feature but can’t seem to get any this side of the pond. Ideally I’m looking for an 8 string.

  2. byjimini February 6th, 2009 8:40 pm

    OK, scratch that, I just wasn’t looking hard enough for the LU-21. :p

  3. LonnaB February 6th, 2009 9:40 pm

    Oh my, the Palin PPC. What a treasure trove that website is.

    Now I know what to do with all this cash that gets in my way every time I try to play my ukulele.

  4. Woodshed February 7th, 2009 10:35 am

    byjimini: Glad you found them. I only really use my eleuke for late night/early morning playing. It does the job for that, but I’m not really keen on the sound of solid bodied ukes.

    Lonna: It’s worth every penny just to make sure we’ve all still got a Republican idiot to laugh at.

  5. Hello Jodi February 7th, 2009 3:11 pm

    Those dolls look like they’d be awesome people if they were real people. Awesome people with giant hands.

  6. Woodshed February 8th, 2009 3:34 pm

    Jodi: And some very nice work on the guy’s back-fat.

  7. Deirdre Helfferich February 14th, 2009 3:50 am

    Oh, my. I hadn’t gone to check out the Palin PAC site until it showed up in my e-mail box in, of all things, a post on ukeleles from a Brit. Living here in Alaska (born and raised, and believe me, we don’t all or even mostly sound like we’re from Minnesota), I have to cringe at our delightful politics here in the 49th State, that Last Frontier of Uncommonly Bad Sense. I mean, I knew Sarah Palin and her supporters were peculiar, but this website reads like a parody.

    Oh. Wait. That’s because it is. Dang. Fooled me for a minute. (You wouldn’t BELIEVE how weird this woman is in real life—it’s not that big a stretch.)

    Okay, back to ukelele practice….

  8. Woodshed February 14th, 2009 11:42 am

    Deirdre: Wait, I thought Palin was a parody all along.

  9. Deirdre Helfferich February 16th, 2009 12:37 am

    Er, you’re right, actually. She just doesn’t know it…

    By the way, I ended up buying a baritone ukelele, so I’m using guitar chords/songbooks, although what’s good for a guitar isn’t necessarily good for a baritone uke, I’m finding. There seems to be very little music or info on baritones….

  10. Woodshed February 16th, 2009 5:56 pm

    Deirdre: You’re absolutely right. The only site that leaps to mind is Tab-U-Learn .I’m tempted to start Baritone Ukulele Hunt. But I’d have to buy a decent baritone ukulele first.

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