The Hidden Lake Estate Sale looks like a mine of great vintage ukes including this William Eden custom tenor. But the real stroke of genius is that they’re offering a weekend getaway where you can try out all the instruments for yourself.
Oh crap, the Kala UBass has hit the UK.
This uke is advertised as a “1910′s Nunes Ukulele”. But I don’t remember ever seeing a fretboard like that on an instrument that old.
A shoebox full of fascinating ukulele photos knocking around this week:
- African American man with ukulele #1
- African American man with ukulele #2
- African American woman with ukulele.
- Farm girls
- Lynne Thorne ukulele pin-up.
- Teenage girl playing a ukulele.
About the “1910 Nunes”, it might be that old. A friend was recently given a very old weissenborn that had been “maritinized” with a newer fretboard and bridge. The owner was an elderly woman, a retired professional musician. She claimed that she was given the ukulele as a child in the mid ’20′s. I wonder if someone in California wasn’t “improving” ukuleles with that modification.