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Great to get to hear Sally! Your production sounds like it was done in a professional studio. I liked your bending technique on the kazoo – like playing the harmonica 🙂

Silly Girl said
Haha, I just gave it a listen and that was great! I loved the nutty scat thing ye did at the end. Can you post/PM me your new and possibly-improved-but-maybe-not lyrics? 

I’m not sure it’ll make sense but here http://pastebin.com/enNfWEjT

I’ve improved my strumming a lot lately but ran into a small snag – I need a bit of fingernail to do it but that conflicts with my finger style on bass so I had to snip it for another song I recorded. I guess I’ll have to change my bass fingering! I’ve now used my ukes for reggae, and I’m planning on doing funky Prince-style licks for a new song parody.

Joe said

Here’s my current collection. The newest, my Pixie sopranino, arrived a week or so ago. It’s small but actually a lot of fun to play. In the middle is my first uke, the Kala KA-S, and on the right is my Vox Ukelectric, which is still my go-to instrument.

@Joe your sopranino looks adorable, looks like a nice thick neck too and the tuners are cool! I’m still thinking about a new soprano, going to check out the local uke club and get some feedback on my playing and see what people are playing.

This one is just for you uker’s, Honey Pie for (Cedric the) ukulele, voice, kazoo and two bass guitars. Note the limits of my vocal range. Sometimes I do this song better than other days, but hey, I actually yodel at one point, that’s a bonus.

Crossposting from the Your Beatles Covers thread:

Playing Cedric in the right channel. It’s in D, it’s pretty easy on uke. The tricky bits are the little breakdowns which I cover by playing D-D7-Bm-G6. Almost makes up for the dreadful fake synth guitar I had to use (still saving for a proper one!).

I discovered that Stephin Merrit of the Magnetic Fields is a massive ukulele fan/player. He says he has to explain to Germans that no, it isn’t a broken out of tune guitar, its a ukulele, because they don’t have them there! Imagine a country with no ukuleles! Here he is with a 8-string uke! He seems to be singing this song in a much lower key than the album version, which is in C. It’s a weird song, I like the tune.

sigh butterfly said
 Hi @ewe2, is this an 8-string uke as well?
 

Hi, no that’s a mandolin. Sorry if you were urgently awaiting a reply! Anyway, I’ve just added Reg to the family:

now before you shake your head and mutter “midlife-crisis penguin”: while he’s just a Kala soprano in fancy clothes, he is one of the older generation of Ukadelics which are still Kala and not Makala and the design is discontinued, so I’m lucky to find one in Australia and especially at the insane price (because it was a display uke). Also, I can put the low G back on Sally, the Aquila Reds are great for picking, but I find the Nygluts much better for strumming.

But speaking of midlife-crisis, I am thinking about getting a Pono AS Acacia soprano in the future, its not hugely expensive here and they’re a very nice solid body and are the cheaper Ko’olau. Although I could switch for an AC, they’re not much more. It’s about £200 in the old money.