This article will help give Uke popularity another little push, but it also displays typical Myopia on the part of the New York Times:
quote:The dawn of this third great ukulele era can be traced to 2006, aficionados say, with the appearance of a video on YouTube by Jake Shimabukuro, a Hawaiian-born ukulele player.
??
... NOT!!
Of course he has helped it along a great deal in recent years, but the Kamaka Uke company has been overwhelmed and basically production limited many more years than that. And other producers have been experiencing similar increased demand for much longer than two years.
Just because the Times noticed it only about 2 years ago does not mean that is actually when the new wave (craze?) started!
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Posted - 08/11/2008 : 07:44:39 AM
