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wcerto
Ahonui

USA
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Posted - 11/09/2011 :  1:30:57 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This was made as a kid's toy, but is it possible to put real strings on it and somehow tune it and have a "practice" `ukulele?

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/03/mister-make-it-and-love-it-series.html#more
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Edited by - wcerto on 11/09/2011 1:31:17 PM

wdf
Ha`aha`a

USA
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Posted - 11/10/2011 :  05:03:34 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Well, Sheila had a cardboard mountain dulcimer that sounded pretty good.
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wcerto
Ahonui

USA
5052 Posts
Posted - 11/10/2011 :  2:07:14 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Paul said the dulcimers have a regular wooden fretboard and regular tuners. I guess I was thinking it would be an easy way to teach keiki in case their attention waned after a while...that way no great expense was made. But now that I think on it, no reason to go to all that trouble for cardboard.

But it was cute for a keiki to pretend with.
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Wanda
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Fran Guidry
Ha`aha`a

USA
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Posted - 11/11/2011 :  06:59:54 AM  Show Profile  Visit Fran Guidry's Homepage  Reply with Quote
There's also a standup bass made from a cardboard box: http://www.edencompanies.com/bogdon/



You can really play this one.

Fran
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ricdoug
`Olu`olu

USA
513 Posts
Posted - 11/11/2011 :  12:15:44 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
You can make them these, Wanda. I made one and it was a simple build:

http://www.grizzly.com/products/h3125

http://www.xoomee.com/ukulele/index.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HQRCH_mK8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO1oAkdAn4c
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wcerto
Ahonui

USA
5052 Posts
Posted - 11/12/2011 :  01:02:11 AM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Pretty cool bass, Fran. I know the web site says made exclusively of cardboard, but gee whillikers, the neck looks like wood to me.

Thanks for the links to the wood kits, RicDoug!
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HRasco
Aloha

USA
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Posted - 02/18/2012 :  9:12:12 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I picked up a "Sponge Bob" plastic uke at Toys r Us. It tuned up nicely and actually had geared metal tuners. Tone was what you would expect but it was playable.
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