My Recording King Resonator uke. Added this to the collection on May 1, 2019 because, well I didn’t have a resonator for sure. The logic for awhile was if I didn’t have one like that I needed one. This did not extend to color or make and had to be a significant difference… like this for sure.
Yet another from Funky Frets in Boyertown. Great for playing at least the intro to Stairway to Heaven… at least I’m working on it. A Lanikai MA-8T. That’s my Maine pack basket it’s leaning on.
Still catching up on posting my Uke collection. This one was purchased in 2017 on a trip back past the manor shopping center from a meeting at Millersville University. Why? I didn’t have a cutaway yet, and the style is classic of course. BTW the bowler is a vintage Stetson complete with serial number and blocking instructions. It’s a bit small perhaps, but great for that tough guy blues image.
Another banjolele actually. Lighter than either the vintage Dixie banjolele (#10) or especially the Luna (#4) whose weight appealed to me. The Firefly by Magic Fluke has a unique one piece construction of head, neck and post that holds the Remo banjo head. I’m not.a fan of the one piece molded fretboard, but overall the design is definitely different than my other ukes, so I like it for that. Got this in 2017 at Funky Frets. (I’m a bit behind in getting these posted.
Fastest I ever bought a uke. I had 5 or ten minutes to spare at an NAGT Eastern Section Meeting in Maryland while people were gathering to eat at a restaurant there when I decided I could run a block or two down the street to a music shop prominently displaying a UKULELE sign. We had passed it multiple times traveling from the hotel to the meeting. I rushed through the door and saw this Cordoba 24C spalted maple with a cedar top Uke and bought it before the guy at the store said hello. I had seen this new model in Ukulele Magazine and instantly fell in love with the wood. It’s the only ukulele I can think of that I may prefer the back to the front. When I got back to the restaurant everyone was seated and I proudly displayed my latest catch.
Yes, I play a little uke… my Ohana Sopranino! It’s a Ohana SK-21A, the smallest of the standard sizes for the ukulele. It has a solid cedar top with solid rosewood back and sides, whose dark color sets off the cedar nicely. It’s held here by our “forever” Gio who says it’s a perfect size.
Uke ten is a banjo… and a ukulele. My vintage Dixie Banjolele from the 1950’s. All metal. Got this one at the Bedford Banjo Shop, a great place for more than banjos actually.
More information on banjoleles is found with Uke four which was my first here.
No, it isn’t a beatles uke, although George Harrison was known for playing one and promoting them as an instrument everyone should have and play as he explains in a letter on this page which also includes some video.
My ninth is one of my favorites, a Martin OXK. It sits in my library on a little shelf I made out of scrap wood that slides under some books and keeps it near at hand when I’m sitting at my desk. (Everything in my tiny library is near at hand from everywhere else in the library.) The review here pretty much sums up why I like it.
