The ukulele thread

[Cathryn]

My Uke group have started our summer gigs. Gigs is far too glamorous a word …so far a village ladies choir concert and another village VE Day fete but my word I’ve enjoyed myself!

 

[icowden]

Gigs is far too glamorous a word …

It really isn't. It covers everything from Glastonbury to a dodgy pub in Aldershot*.

*instead of donations to the bucket a fairly scary man bought the band two rounds of Jaeger bombs. He didn't look like saying "no" was a good idea, but tricky when you have to drive home from Aldershot.

 

[lazybloke]

It really isn't. It covers everything from Glastonbury to a dodgy pub in Aldershot*.

*instead of donations to the bucket a fairly scary man bought the band two rounds of Jaeger bombs. He didn't look like saying "no" was a good idea, but tricky when you have to drive home from Aldershot.

Can think of nicer places. Sadly my job is moving nearby.

Jaeger bombs

Can think of nicer drinks....

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Can think of nicer places. Sadly my job is moving nearby.


Can think of nicer drinks....

I can think of nicer everything!

 

[icowden]

I can think of nicer everything!

Did I mention that the chap was our *only* audience. He really enjoyed the gig. The only other people in the pub were in the garden smoking suspicious roll ups and the owners family at the bar. Still - we got paid by the pub *and* got Jaeger bombs. Haven't been back though...

 

[Yellow Fang]

I saw these in a local music shop.
One is a soprano ukulele, but what is the other. It looks too big to be a concert ukulele. Is it a bass ukulele? Are bass ukuleles like bass guitars, or are they just bigger ukuleles?

 

[icowden]

I saw these in a local music shop.
One is a soprano ukulele, but what is the other. It looks too big to be a concert ukulele. Is it a bass ukulele? Are bass ukuleles like bass guitars, or are they just bigger ukuleles?

It has the chubbier look of the Tenor to me.

 

[Salad Dodger]

I saw these in a local music shop.
One is a soprano ukulele, but what is the other. It looks too big to be a concert ukulele. Is it a bass ukulele? Are bass ukuleles like bass guitars, or are they just bigger ukuleles?

There are bass ukuleles that resemble a tenor or baritone sized ukulele, but with strings made of rubber tubing to enable them to be tuned lower than a standard uke. Played "unplugged", they are not very loud, so they usually have some sort of pickup built in, and can be plugged into an amplifier to generate some volume.
But there are also bass ukuleles that are like a shrunk down electric bass guitars. Steel strings, magnetic pickups, volume and tone controls fitted. They definitely need an external amplifier to generate any sound.