Recent content by FatManInDevon

I was playing my Kala KA-BFS Bocote soprano and tuned it, using an electronic tuner attached to the head. The C string sounds ok open but when I tried playing the C scale the D note sounded off. The tuner says that it is very flat, while the C note (C string open) is still in tune. Do you...

The other night I was watching ‘The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes’, a 1970s movie starring Robert Stephens in the titular role. In one scene the cerebral duo attend an opera ‘after party’, in which a band can be seen playing, what I took to be, ukuleles. One of which looks extremely...

I’ve been watching a lot of YouTube videos, everything from fantastically gifted kids playing Classical Gas to old gezzers (like me) teaching strumming. I’ve noticed that North American YouTubers say ookoolele while YouTubers from dear ole Blighty say youkoolele. I was just wondering which was...

Hi, last year a friend gave me ‘Ukulele for Beginners’ by Will Grove-White (it stayed, unopened, on my bookshelf until last week). It has some great general information about ukes and those who’ve played them but I found the actual how to play sections don’t go far enough. Does anyone have any...

Hello, I got my first ukulele last Friday (an Ortega concert) and have fallen for the instrument; and that’s from someone who struggles to get a tune out of a kazoo! I’ve enjoyed learning to strum and finger a few chords so much that today I ordered my second ukulele, a Pono tenor. I’ve read...