Mar/26/10
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Baritone Tabs, Olive Thomas: Friday Links

A mystery tabber was kind enough to let me post a bit slab of baritone ukulele tabs of classical and traditional tunes.

The Re-entrants are trying to get their version of Ace of Spades into the charts. You can buy it on iTunes.

Olive Thomas on a ukulele. She had an interesting lifestory, there’s a documentary about her here.

Stretch your strings when you change them.

MP3s: Peggy Sue are giving away a bit of a greatest hits collection Body of Work including uke songs Alice in the Kitchen and The Conservationist.

What does a Playgirl centrefold do when he wants to pick up chicks?

Ukulele vegetable grater.

Pictures: Tiny Tim uke, Dirty Blond, Ukulele Lady, Pegasus Bridge.

David Cameron compared to a ukulele

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  1. cardboardfrog March 26th, 2010 4:25 pm

    those baritone tabs are brilliant, i’m trying to get down canon in d, but i’m struggling a bit, if anyone can play it and fancies recording it that’d be awesome.

  2. Paddy March 26th, 2010 5:16 pm

    Nothing against the Re-entrants or anything, but isn’t the goal of anybody releasing a single to sell as many as possible, preferably enough to warrant a chart place? It just seems like stating the obvious to say that you want to get it into the charts.

  3. PotofBasil March 26th, 2010 9:33 pm

    You’re supposed to change strings, Al? I kept
    strings on guitars for years, and even if
    I did change them, I hated the sound of brand
    new strings. Had to break them in for a while
    before I could stand them. So, I can’t for the
    life of me understand this obsession people
    have for brand spanking new, bright, crisp strings. I don’t want to project
    from my ukulele into the heart of China (and nobody there wants to hear me play, either).

    And what
    I can (or can’t) do on the instrument is infinitely
    more important to me than what it sounds like coming out of the instrument. I’d be just as happy being able to play something on (say) a Kala Kiwi than
    I would be playing that same something on a 5K. The satisfaction and enjoyment would
    be every bit as sweet. Ours is just a silly little
    instrument to have fun with and share that fun, and beyond a certain point of fanciness and cost (and not a very high point at that, as far as I’m concerned), that purpose is lost.

    And Koa Shmoa…
    I don’t care what the top, back, and sides of your ukulele are made of. How many listeners do you think do? And anyone who really cares what
    their instrument’s fretboard is made of needs to
    reestablish contact with real-world reality in a big hurry. Go outside, breathe in some fresh air.
    Need ten different ukes with ten different woods for ten different sounds?
    Well, it’s time to give it up altogether then, you’ve lost the true free uker spirit.

  4. Woodshed March 30th, 2010 8:16 am

    cbf: Have fun with them.

    Paddy: There’s nothing wrong with making a goal out of it.

    PotofBasil: I happen to think what a fretboard is made of is very important. Particularly having played a Fluke with a plastic fretboard.

    And I find make a nice sound more enjoyable than making a nasty sound (unless I’m aiming to make a nasty sound).

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