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New baritone arrived yesterday

11 November 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles, Personal reminisence
New uke arrived yesterday - three business days from Nova Scotia, which is pretty good for Canada Post. Hadn't expected it until Friday, and the Canada Post site even said it wouldn't arrive until the 16th, so I was pleasantly surprised.

Only had a couple of hours with it, but I posted some preliminary comments on my ukulele review site....

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Tags: ukuleles, baritone uke, luthiery 1 Comments


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Meanwhile, on the ukulele front...

17 September 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles
I've been a bit involved in the campaigning of late, and neglectful of making posts about my ukulele passion. So here we go with a few recent items...

About two weeks ago I received a mango tenor ukulele from Mainland, in a stunning faux-alligator hard shell case. I spent the following weekend with it, playing it almost exclusively and...

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Jammin' at the Dominion Pub

31 July 2010
Posted by Ian Chadwick in Music and ukuleles
Susan and I spent a couple of days in Toronto this week, reversing the trend of coming north during the summer. We stayed downtown for a couple of nights and walked for several miles throughout the city - Kensington, Spadina, Queen Street West, Chinatown and more - enjoying the sights and sounds of a busy, multicultural city. There were two...

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Tags: music, ukuleles, Toronto, jam 2 Comments


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That old time music

07 September 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Been buying a lot of old song books and song sheets on eBay of late - and a few at local used bookstores, too. I'm looking for songs with ukulele...

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Ukulele luthiery

22 August 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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Ukuleles have been a challenge to me of late. Fixing same, not the playing thereof.

First, I recently purchased a...

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My musical family

30 May 2009
Posted by Ian Chadwick
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That rather handsome young man to the left was my father, at age 17. So serious, so formal looking. My brother scanned and emailed the picture to me, part of my search to find out more about my family and its roots.

That photograph was...

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Tags: Personal reminiscences, father, Chadwick, musical family, Oldham, Lancashire, banjo, ukuleles 0 Comments


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