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Spent a few days in Toronto last week; a mini-vacation, our first time off together since spring, 2008. Susan had the time off work, so we booked a hotel and...
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Two new ukes have been added to the collection recently: a soprano zebrawood Ohana, and a tenor banjo uke from Waverly Street ukes. Both are reviewed on my...
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Tom Guy's cigar box ukulele has certainly taken over as my most-played instrument. I take it to work to practice on during slow times - usually the last hour of the day or the last couple of hours on a Saturday. I...
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Cigar box instruments have been around ever since there were cigars, it seems. They go back to before the US Civil War. It didn't take long for some entrepreneurial spirits to figure out how to use a wooden cigar...
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Thanks to a bit of serendipity, I've added another great song to my ukulele...
[indent]I must be the only technophile on the planet without a Blackberry. Or its equivalent. Everyone around me has one. I have a mere cell phone....
I found this video on YouTube and thought I'd share it with readers. If you have a cat, you'll know what it's all about...
Susan and I laughed until we cried because we have a cat who does almost exactly this every morning....
Susan and I laughed until we cried because we have a cat who does almost exactly this every morning....
[indent]I was amusing myself this weekend with some ad hoc genealogy, looking up my family name online, hunting around for my roots, a vanity search as its called. Of course, we all have two roots to dig into - our mother's and father's families. Each of those bifurcates into two more and so on. That makes it both...
[indent]I finally got my page of ukulele reviews updated with my latest acquisition (a Pono solid mango tenor uke, arrived earlier this week). While nowhere near as comprehensive as my review of harmonicas, I...
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