Night Train
Maker of Things
- Location
- Greater Manchester
This is another favorite.
Any Ukulele players out there?
- Thread starter Fab Foodie
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Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
I got a ukulele for my birthday a few years ago, but haven't had time to play it ... besides I got banished upstairs!
We went to see the UOoGB a few years ago and I loved it [hence the present!]... they were brilliant but the left hand end one with the grey ponytail wasn't on the tour which was a pity.
We went to see the UOoGB a few years ago and I loved it [hence the present!]... they were brilliant but the left hand end one with the grey ponytail wasn't on the tour which was a pity.
It HAS to be at chest height or you wouldn't be able to play it. There's no straps on a feather-light uke so you hold it up in order to twang it one. And as Frank Skinner reveals in that brilliant documentary about George Formby, what he's playing is a banjolele for a reason unsuitable for mortals like us. If Formby or indeed Skinner were to play a uke, the audience in an auditorium wouldn't hear the sound so a banjolele is required HOWEVER, if we were to go for a banjolele, it would have two disadvantages, a) it's more expensive than a plain uke and b) it's too loud to play around your house and unless your voice is amplified with a microphone, the people you sing to wouldn't hear your voice as it'd be drowned out by the volume coming from the body of the instrument.
An FYI on uke/banjo/banjolle etiquette there!
(I have to put clothes pegs on the bridge of my banjo if voice is required or it's too loud)
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
It's one problem I had with learning the Sax, apart from I had to keep re-arranging lessons at the last minute due to travel changes, it's just too loud to play when others are in the house.
The Uke is much queter and easier to travel with!
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
- Location
- Lancaster... the little city.
just noticed paul b posted that also... check out Mr B, the gentleman rhymer, he's got nice chops!!
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
This for me too, well, not so much time pressure as wasting too much time once I got internet at home... Only played chords and sang along to myself, but it's fun.
Andrew_Culture
Internet Marketing bod
- Location
- The People's Republic Of Suffolk.
Well the Edwardian definition of a gentleman is 'a man who owns a banjo... But doesn't play it.'
if so, I'm a double baddie. I love the sound of a banjo and find it the easiest of the stringed instruments to play (for a cack-handed accident-prone wazzock like what I am).
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
I fear it may.
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
I was inspired ages ago by these guys ... just never did anything about it 'till now:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxmxGZqRjc
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIxmxGZqRjc
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
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I like the flying V uke that babies holding.
I like the flying V uke that babies holding.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
Have you heard the one about the piano player in the pub who on finding that the piano was locked asked for a banjo. "wow, you play banjo too?"' someone asked, "no" he replied "but if I had a banjo I could use it to smash the lock off".
