My latest songsheet, for Way Down Yonder in New Orleans by Layton and Creamer. Cliff recorded this one a couple of times in the forties, but I don't think it was released until the posthumous LP "Shaking the Blues Away". Because his version isn't commonly encountered I've uploaded it to YouTube...
Ah, that looks possible. I wondered whether it was a specific method for adapting piano music to chords for the ukulele, but it could indeed be the particular notation and conventions established in a certain tuition book. I'll have a read through. Thank you for that.
Edit: That led me to this...
During my frequent hunts for sheet music I found this library entry:
Jealous [music] / words by Tommie Malie & Dick Finch ; music by Jack Little ; ukulele arrangement by P.P. McGrath using Bishaw's method
Does anyone know what "Bishaw's method" might be? Nothing turned up in my searches.
My only concern with the rechargeable tuners is that, as with most wireless earbuds, the batteries cannot be replaced and will degrade with time, eventually becoming unusable. That's the nature of the chemistry at the moment even if you rarely charge them.
How they compare with recycling...
Taking advantage of my temporarily rejigged work schedule, I typed up a sheet for Dinah earlier. There's a lovely sequence in the section beginning "Ev'ry night" which you can really make flow with a little thought about the transitions between chords. Only a small thing, but it feels quite...
Something that surprised me when I was looking into these songs is that Am I Blue? was used in four movies in the year it was written! I'm used to finding multiple performances of a song released in a year (simply how things were done back when there was no exclusivity expected for the tunes put...
Two more for the pot! Am I Blue? went smoothly, but working out the lyrics Cliff sings to Clap Hands! Here Comes Charley! was not so easy. I think I have them almost correct, but you can see on the songsheet the words I've highlighted as I'm less certain of them. Do let me know if you hear them...
And yet the name "frunk" (front + trunk) has somehow become the norm for the storage space at the front of electric cars, when the far more charming "froot" was right there 🙂
The majority of cases today are slightly bigger than they used to be because the same is true of ukuleles. If you have a soprano built to Martin dimensions then it will be a perfect fit in a Gator Journeyman case, but rather loose in a TGI ABS case, for example. A Nunes shape is, if anything...
Excellent little ukes, those HPL Martins. I picked up a secondhand one with the bamboo pattern and it plays beautifully, tuned up to D. Were I still in the US I'd snap that up at the Buy It Now price.
I think you're right about getting lucky with the looks on that example. After your review I did some searching for concert and soprano examples and not a one came close.