Kiwi Biker ukulele orchestra?

[Hitcher]

I thank Hitcher wholeheartedly for getting me into this and helping me out.

Goodness me, I didn't do much at all.

Now that my bung left thumb is on the mend I am getting back into ukulele. D7, Em, B7, Bb, and other thumb-requiring chords are now proving not as problematic as they were a few weeks ago.

[Smifffy]

Four people ARE more than enough for a quartet. We just need three more in Wellington...

Actually, four people is exactly enough for a quartet. To be more than enough, more people would be required.

[Banditbandit]

Over recent months I have "taken up" the ukulele.

Indeed so smitten am I with this Queen Of Instruments that I now have two, a soprano and a tenor. I also have callouses on my fingertips. Those who know will understand.

Anyway, I am now at a stage where I feel a strange desire to meet with other ukulele aficionados for the purposes of the convivial thrashing to death of said instruments.

Indeed a Wellington Chapter of the Kiwi Biker Ukulelisti may be of a mind to challenge other chapters for a "strum off" at a time and venue still to be decided?

Are there any starters out there?

No .. please .. no .. please

You can't inflict that sort of torture on people and not expect recriminations ...

[Hitcher]

It's got worse since that last post. I now have three ukes. My third is a peachy Kala Koa wood concert cutaway with a built-in pick up. This works particularly well of an evening when connected to a Roland COSM cube amplifier.

[Drunken Monkey]

Uke's pair up with guitar pretty well, don't rule out doing a uke-axe duo act...

[fuknKIWI]

Oh god, it's Tiny Tim reincarnated.

Hahaha apparently playing the ukelele IS hazrdous to your health.
Here's another ukelele who carked it, he went to No1 in Germany posthumously all the same

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

[Number One]

After watching all those clips I am struck with the urge to covet young Sully's fire engine red uke. I have no idea how to play anything that resembles music or even chords though...I'm guessing there are websites that can teach you all that jazz?

[Hitcher]

After watching all those clips I am struck with the urge to covet young Sully's fire engine red uke. I have no idea how to play anything that resembles music or even chords though...I'm guessing there are websites that can teach you all that jazz?

The Internet is awash with stuff. That's pretty much where I've downloaded all my scores from. Pretty much anything the Beatles wrote can be banged out on a uke. The Eagles Lying Eyes is a favourite, and I'm discovering that even Burt Bacharach can be hacked as well.

I'd recommend going and seeing Alastair at Alastair's Music on Upper Cuba Street and spending the $25-odd required to put some decent Italian Aquila strings. They make a huge difference to even the cheapest Uke. He'll also check out the winders at the same time.

[nudemetalz]

I'd recommend going and seeing Alastair at Alastair's Music on Upper Cuba Street and spending the $25-odd required to put some decent Italian Aquila strings. They make a huge difference to even the cheapest Uke. He'll also check out the winders at the same time.

That's the exact place I bought my latest one from. Great people, very friendly service and yes I got the decent strings on mine.

So, the KB Wellington Ukulele Orchestra, huh?

[Hitcher]

It doesn't take too long before the lure of solid wood rather than painted plywood and a decent set of cogs kicks in.

I'm currently lusting after Kala's newly-released Acacia wood models. Particularly the tenor with the slotted headstock. I may even be seduced by the eight-string variant of these. Sigh...

[nudemetalz]

When I was picking up my new Kala on Monday they were kind enough to give me a play with the latest electric BASS ukulele.
Wow !!! The sound was incredible !! I would dearly love one, but alas, a tad out of my budget range (they go for approx $800).

[Ronin]

Hahaha apparently playing the ukelele IS hazrdous to your health.
Here's another ukelele who carked it, he went to No1 in Germany posthumously all the same

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1bFr2SWP1I

It was a skydiving accident right?

[nudemetalz]

Some of my friends who do not like Uke's have told me that I could die in a "mysterious" way if I bring it to parties and bbq's...

[Fatt Max]

Some of my friends who do not like Uke's have told me that I could die in a "mysterious" way if I bring it to parties and bbq's...

Well, I reckon their parties would be fecking crap. Where I go, the Uke goes

[fuknKIWI]

It doesn't take too long before the lure of solid wood rather than painted plywood and a decent set of cogs kicks in.

I'm currently lusting after Kala's newly-released Acacia wood models. Particularly the tenor with the slotted headstock. I may even be seduced by the eight-string variant of these. Sigh...

DOCTOR
Is there a doctor in the house