I purchased my first Ukelele this past summer and I love it! It is interesting that everyone else at my house does too.
My three year old Zane who is interested in steel guitar as well, tried to take my ukelele over. He thought it was for him; I suppose since it is small in size. He has his own pedal steel guitar by the way.
In closing I used my ukelele when recording my new "Steelin' Hawaiian Dreams," steel guitar CD. It was really a nice adition to the music as you all know, and gave it the traditional Hawaiian sound. I had to play and overdub the Ukelele though myself, because there are no other uke players in this part of the USA. Lots of banjo and fiddle players, but few Uke players in the Ozarks USA.
quote:Lots of banjo and fiddle players, but few Uke players in the Ozarks USA.
I'd bet there use to be tons of 'em. A couple of years back the Old Time Herald had a dandy story about the `ukulele and old time music -- turns out it was quite common.
I just got a nice compilation CD called "Music of the Crooked Road" -- part of the NCTA tour of the same name honoring old time music from western VA. There are three cuts with `ukulele; one from the 20s.
And lots of us modern old time players use a uke these days -- I really like my tenor six string for backing fiddle tunes, tho' sometimes I'll use the old Slingerland Maybell banjo uke.
So tell those Ozark folks to get hip!
BTW: it's "ukulele" -- two words: uku = flea (or louse, actually) and lele = jump or leap. Hope it's not too late to change the cover on yr CD!
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Posted - 11/13/2007 : 04:33:26 AM
