Friday Links

Learning

– I’m loving Jonathan Lewis’s Irish Tunes for Campanella Ukulele. Here’s the campanella primer he wrote in case you missed it.
Garfunkel & Oates have released two books of sheet music for their songs.
Uke Nut’s tab for Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto Adagio.

Videos

SydneyUke is going great guns in the current series of Asia’s Got Talent with a very popular performance in the semi final.
Warren Buffett would like to buy the world a Coke. The world would like to buy Warren a tuner.
– The incredible Soeurs Gogochurebi panduri players from Tbilisi.

Ukes

Custom painted ukuleles including some very fetching Van Gogh ukuleles.
– Retailers asked just how popular are ukuleles?
Dad keeps telling me it’s a toy.

Pictures

Stepping Out: Washington 1922. (Thanks to Jim.)
World’s tiniest man takes up ukulele.
Helen Rook.

Election Section

I Predict A (Political) Riot

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4 Comments

  1. Neil Jackson May 2nd, 2015 11:28 am

    Just the read the retailers link. Looks to me like Red Dog Music is just asking for a ukulele flash mob. On a regular basis.

  2. Jeanette May 2nd, 2015 11:46 am

    I enjoyed watching Sydney Uke’s performance so also watched her earlier appearance on Episode 5. If you do the same & view that one you may wish to switch off before the annoying judge on the end describes ukuleles as ‘toys’ – it made me stupidly annoyed :)

  3. Mike May 2nd, 2015 5:40 pm

    My head practically exploded when I saw Uke Net’s arrangement of Mozart’s clarinet concerto. As a clarinet player, I spent years working on the adagio — I can’t wait to combine the uke and clarinet on this. Thanks for the link!

  4. Woodshed May 3rd, 2015 9:13 pm

    Neil: My reading of it was that they’re either the snobbish sort of music shop that treats customers with disdain or it was a joke that misfired and they ended up looking like assholes.

    Jeanette: Having no idea what you’re talking about seems to be a requirement of judges on these shows.

    Mike: Happy playing!

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