A Fun & Fabulous Ukulele Blog
Happy new gear day!! Well I finally did it. I got my first ukulele with a fan fretboard. I had been looking for one of these for awhile, but they were always sold out on Reverb and the custom made ones were not in scope …
I am sure I am not alone in saying that “I am a Domain Name Hoarder.” I think many of us who were designing websites during the “dawning of the internet,” circa 1990s, developed the habit of buying cool names for websites. Back then it …
Today I want to share a little DIY project that might be useful to some of you especially if you are having problems with your plucking hands or fingers. Over the last few years I have been developing a bad “trigger finger” thumb on my …
Over the last 5 weeks I have had the pleasure of attending Sammy Turton’s (a.k.a. 4stringboy) Fingerstyle Composition course. Every week we have been introduced to important aspects of composing fingerstyle music for ukulele including theory, patterns and harmony. As I write this, that final …
Today I am sharing a custom Alto Ukulele from Beansprout Ukulele. The body size is somewhere between a soprano and concert size at 23.5 inches in length. To me, it definitely feels like a soprano but the slightly longer fretboard seems to give it a …
Michael Pereira is a luthier from California, USA. I started learning the ukulele right about when there was a rumor he was starting to wind things down with his custom shop. (See update below.) I always wanted one of his custom ukuleles after watching Ken …