Any Ukulele Players/Collectors

ndmiller

ndmiller

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Been playing for a couple years now and just bought my 4th Uke, a Spalted Mango Grand Tenor from Hawaii.

Anyone else play or collect Ukulele's?
 
View attachment 1219898 View attachment 1219900 View attachment 1219901 I got the Chinese Uke at flea market for $5. It plays and sounds great and even has geared tuners. The case ran $40.
The banjo Uke is made by the Slingerland drum company circa 1920. The hoop is birdseye maple. The hand lettered serial number is #20. I removed the friction pegs, turned down the pegs on the geared tuners, and made a stainless plate to hold everything so I could restore to original. I then calculated the proper diameter for the installation of steel strings. The calf skin head is not as loud as Mylar, but it is much louder than wooden Uke.
Tip toe through my tulips?
 
I mostly play guitar and bass but I do have a few ukes around that I like to mess with.
The Makala is a plastic one and it is real fun to play, the Hulala is something I picked up about 5 years ago and it is a fantastic player

I also have a Ohana and an old Harmony that needs work.
Playing the uke is a lot of fun and it is easy to tote these around.ED2AE8D7-E4F3-4D8E-B56B-3F07637CB130.jpeg
 
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tiguy7 said:
View attachment 1219898 View attachment 1219900 View attachment 1219901 I got the Chinese Uke at flea market for $5. It plays and sounds great and even has geared tuners. The case ran $40.
The banjo Uke is made by the Slingerland drum company circa 1920. The hoop is birdseye maple. The hand lettered serial number is #20. I removed the friction pegs, turned down the pegs on the geared tuners, and made a stainless plate to hold everything so I could restore to original. I then calculated the proper diameter for the installation of steel strings. The calf skin head is not as loud as Mylar, but it is much louder than wooden Uke.
Tip toe through my tulips?
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That it's 1920s vintage makes sense. Ukulele was a huge fad in that era, Americans were into everything culturally exotic then.
 
Cliff Edwards AKA Ukulele Ike singing "Nobody But You" in The Hollywood Revue of 1929.


Edwards had a great second career with Walt Disney as the voice of Jiminy Cricket. Here he is on the Mickey Mouse Club, 15 November 1955, singing "Give a Little Whistle" from the 1940 Disney movie and accompanied by Clarence Nash, voice actor of Donald Duck, and Brazilian guitarist José Oliveira AKA Zé Carioca, voice actor of the Disney cartoon character José Carioca.

 
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