Wednesday, March 05, 2008

The four-stringed joy machine

You can't be down with one of these around:



And so I bought one. And it looks exactly like the one in the picture.

Life may not be good, ever, but it just became a wee bit more bearable.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alo-ha!

Anonymous said...

we have the self-same one. Did you get it at songbird?

Anonymous said...

ukes are perhaps the greatest thing there is.
This is a good place for chords:
http://www.geocities.com/xulfrepus/folder/ukulele.html

nathan said...

Em: I bought mine at Long & McQuade on a whim, Songbird being, I thought, defunct.

Thanks for the chords, Steven. I'm looking forward to getting beyond jaunty renditions of "Hotel Yorba."

GM said...

Nice. I have a six string uke-guitar, same brand, that I bought for the boy, but play a bit myself. You have to tune it in f, but it takes guitar chords.

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