Comments on: Ukulele Window Shopping: Pono Pineapple, Orcas Ukulele Strings

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:56:12 +0000

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.

By: Deirdre Helfferich

Deirdre Helfferich — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:37:15 +0000

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….

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:42:40 +0000

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

By: Deirdre Helfferich

Deirdre Helfferich — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:50:36 +0000

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….

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:34:03 +0000

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

By: Hello Jodi

Hello Jodi — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:11:41 +0000

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

By: Woodshed

Woodshed — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:35:33 +0000

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.

By: LonnaB

LonnaB — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:40:29 +0000

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.

By: byjimini

byjimini — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:40:16 +0000

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

By: byjimini

byjimini — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:35:32 +0000

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.