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    I never would have guessed, USB Ukeleles. I especially like the trussrod cover logo.

    Lanikai Labs ? UkeSB | Lanikai Ukuleles
    Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

  • #2
    A sign of the times we live in. Although purists would likely scoff...
    The farmer takes a wife, the barber takes a pole....

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    • #3
      Possibly a good thing; you could process the signal and make it sound like something else. I would imagine Hell is full of ukeleles.

      EDIT;

      We'll, I'll eat my words on this. It sounds quite good. Perhaps I've been raised on a diet of red-and-blue plastic ukes. And plywood ones with an action 3/4" high and all the sustain of a gunshot. As well as George Formby. These are in a different league.
      Last edited by Mick Bailey; 06-10-2013, 04:29 PM.

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      • #4
        In my day it would have been a plastic uke with Roy Rogers painted on it.

        maybe you've seen this, but her is some uke that isn't plastic, IZ Kamakawiwo'ole .

        OFFICIAL - Somewhere Over the Rainbow 2011 - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole - YouTube
        Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

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        • #5
          And then there are numbers like this
          The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - YouTube
          Who would have thunk to do this with Ukes

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          • #6
            I had an interesting instrument to work on last year - a Saz. 3 pickups, series/parallel/phase wiring and multiple tone and volume controls. It was poorly made and had strange moveable frets made like cable ties.

            The intervals up the fretboard weren't even-tempered. It had 8 strings in 4 courses and it sounded like cutting a cardboard box with a rusty bread knife. I thought it was junk at the time.

            But how the guy could play when he picked it up. He made it rock.

            Try this;

            Kemal Mara? - Ak?am Güne?i - YouTube

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            • #7
              I own a saz. Not electric though. Frets are made of nylon fishing line wrapped around the neck. Body is carved out of a single piece of wood. Unfortunately the body on mine is cracked in two. Mine is more rustic, wooden peg tuners. The thing is close to four feet long,.
              Education is what you're left with after you have forgotten what you have learned.

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