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Now for something completely different, number 2:
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2 more ukes in the pipeline - this is a piccolo - smallest - 2 sopranos half complete and 1 tenor finished. Just need to learn how to play them. :lol:
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:applesauce: :applesauce: :applesauce: Not at all boring---I had a beginner's ukelele when I was a child and never did much with it---it would be fun to try learning now though!!! I love the looks of this one!!
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Nothing boring here that is a wonderful Ukelele. It is just beautiful. I can not hold a tune in a bucket either with an instrument or with my voice but I love to sit and listen. My son has taught himself to play the guitar. :dance: :dance:
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I would love to have learned to play the banjo. DH & neighbours wouldn't enjoy me learning so will stick with needlecrafts :D I can't read music anyway, looks like a foreign language to me but I can hear a slightly out of tune instrument so would have to play by ear :tizzy:

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Rose wrote:Nothing boring here that is a wonderful Ukelele. It is just beautiful. I can not hold a tune in a bucket either with an instrument or with my voice but I love to sit and listen.
I agree; I love ukelele music (and most music). Some of us are meant to play and sing, some of us (me) are meant to just listen. :-)
lavenderbee wrote: Ooohh, another thing learned today, just found the other smilies :whoop: Wondered how you got those, finding 'quote' marker & these in one day I am obviously on a roll :dance:
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:applesauce: :applesauce: I think your ukeleles are awesome.
I also thought about playing the banjo at one time. And the drums. Really wanted to learn drums. My granddaughter was a drummer in a band when she was in high school and college. She's a petite little thing and looked funny behind the drums, but was good.

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Well Done its really beautiful and I bet it sounds great too. I can sing but play something - forget it.
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Tenor uke - easier to play (so I'm told) as frets are wider apart.
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My husband taught me to play the guitar a few years ago I found it difficult to strum and play chords at the same time I could either do one or the other it took a long time to play both at once, I hope you are getting on well with your ukulele's they play some stomping tunes :)
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Do I hear you singing?

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Another very beautiful instrument!!! :wub:
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This is beautiful. My in-laws lived next to a man that made violins and his workmanship was just gorgeous. Sadly he and my in-laws are both gone now but I can remember how beautiful the wood was. He had been from Chicago and had met Al Capone several times.
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Made this some years ago - still can't play it!!
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Wow that is gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!! :applesauce: :applesauce:
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Beautiful guitar. Reading the postings it reminded me when I was a schoolchild I always wanted to learn to play the drums. In the 50/60s loved Sandy Nelson playing Let There Be Drums. Then for some reason decided would love to have played the banjo. I think it great when people can play an instrument.
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wendywombat wrote:Do I hear you singing?

"I'm leaning on the lamppost at the corner of the street....." @rotfl: @rotfl:

I love the diversity of your hobbies. :applesauce:
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Indeed we are!!! :lol:
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They look gorgeous. Very envious of the skill to make them.

I have wanted to make a hammer dulcimer for years, having been inspired by a reprint of Paul Hasluck's 1907 book 'Violins and other stringed Instruments - How to make them' that I have. (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Violins-Other-S ... 1444647865)

However, beyond the satisfaction of making it, there is really no point. I can hold a tune in the same way as I can grip a fistful of water - it all dribbles away very fast. I'd never be able to make a coherent noise from it.

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Well. I guess for me the satisfaction of lutherie is in the actual making of the instrument, and then hearing it played. I will try to learn to play the ukulele - the piccolo one was made to perhaps carry with me whilst walking the camino - a sovereign cure when arriving at a full pilgrim refuge - strum a couple of chords and the place empties.... @rotfl:
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Awesome instruments, if you ask me. I could never make anything like that, not to mention to play. My "music" would be so unpleasant no one would want to be nearby.
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