Friday Links: Looping Ukulele, Dogs and Rihanna

Videos

– Manitoba Hal has some tips for using a looping pedal with your ukulele.
– Rachel Manke tests out Ohana’s Martin Style 3 copies.
– Lorraine Bow of Learn to Uke chats with James Hill and Anne Janelle. And her group recently Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.
– Ukulelia spots some ukuleles at the South Pole.
– Which ukulele offcuts do dogs prefer?

Pessimists Archive is a great podcast about past moral panics over new technology. They recently did an episode about the recorded music scare and fears it would put musicians out of a job. The Musician’s Union reacted by banning it’s members from performing on radio recordings. As luck would have it, they didn’t regard the ukulele as a real instrument so it was all over radio hits such as Jo Stafford & Gordon MacRae’s Say Something Sweet To Your Sweetheart.

Woman awarded €18,500 after injury hurts ukulele hobby.

Teacher mods a ukulele for a student with a partially formed left arm.

LP discusses writing Rihanna’s Cheers (Drink to That) on ukulele.

KoAloha’s Black Label Customs.

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