Something very suspicious is going on with the eBay seller jp-cultures. They have a large range of very impressive ukuleles for sale. But some of their listings seem to be identical to listings by other sellers. They only have 17 feedback (despite having nearly 6000 instruments for sale) but their positive feedback seems to be all for cheap instruments while their two items of negative feedback are for expensive instruments never delivered. So avoid buying anything from them and just look at the pretty pictures.
Window Shopping
– Two double-neck Geoff Preston ukuleles.
– Kanile’a talk shop with CNBC.
– Jake Wildwood has a bunch of banjo-ukes in his shop including 1920s Stromberg-Voisinet, 1930s Schoenhut, 1940s Orpheus and 1960s Marma Resonator from East Germany.
New Releases
– Danielle Ate the Sandwich wrote, recorded and produced a record in 24 hours.
– The Tides from Krista Muir.
– Amelia Coburn’s covers EP.
– Victoria Vox’s Colorful Heart.
Feel Good Stories
– UCLA Chapter making 3D printed ukuleles for disadvantaged children.
– Playing the ukulele in the light: how darkness ended for one Puerto Rican woman.
—Lois Wise is crowdfunding for a
new album, Al.
—Maybe it’s just me but I don’t see
as many banjo ukes out there as I used to.
“Out there” being videos and online images.
—I devour uke images and the banjo variety
is a rare sight these days.
—Apart from the Formby angle, has the
banjo uke been relegated to fringe status?