This Sycamore Tenor and the huge yellow Dahlias grown by our neighbor.Alicia Dauber decorate our coffee table. The Cedar soundboard and Koa binding will blend nicely with the Sycamore body. Source link

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BY E.E. BRADMAN | PHOTOS BY DMITRI VON KLEIN | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE If you play ukulele or read Ukulele, you’re no stranger to Daniel Ward. He’s been in these pages (and on our YouTube channel) for nearly a decade, but he’s been a four-string virtuoso for much longer, traveling

This Sycamore Tenor and the huge yellow Dahlias grown by our neighbor.Alicia Dauber decorate our coffee table. The Cedar soundboard and Koa binding will blend nicely with the Sycamore body. Source link

BY UKULELE BARTT | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE International ukulele festivals are spectacular, wacky, and mesmerizing. Tickets can seem pricey, but when you consider the mountains that organizers must move, the value of a ukefest experience is immeasurable. You’ll treasure the memories that go beyond concerts and workshops. You’ll renew your

BY FRED SOKOLOW | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Many popular songs from the 1920s to the 1950s have become jazz standards, often referred to collectively as the “Great American Songbook.” Playing them chord-melody style is one of my favorite things to do on the little lamb chop, as Cliff Edwards called

I was lucky enough to see Prince perform at a small nightclub in San Francisco in the mid-2010s. I was close enough to see, throughout the two-and-a-half-hour set, that miraculously, he did not perspire, despite singing, dancing, directing the musicians, and mixing the band’s monitors onstage. Though he primarily played guitar, he was jumping around

STORY AND PHOTOS BY SANDOR NAGYSZALANCZY | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE Anyone who’s spent time admiring American ukuleles from the 1920s and ’30s knows their visual charm often lies in scenes of everyday leisure: a guy serenading his gal in a canoe on a placid river; a family basking in the

BY UKULELE BARTT | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE International ukulele festivals are spectacular, wacky, and mesmerizing. Tickets can seem pricey, but when you consider the mountains that organizers must move, the value of a ukefest experience is immeasurable. You’ll treasure the memories that go beyond concerts and workshops. You’ll renew your

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Every Player Has a Story Worth Passing On.  Kala is giving 5 lucky winners the chance to express their own story with a pair of new Voyage Legacy Ukuleles. Each Voyage Legacy Ukulele features custom laser-etched artwork by Māori cultural artist Sam Mangakahia, whose work blends Māori and Hawaiian traditions to tell stories focused on

From left to right,  Soprano     Concert     Tenor     Baritone The soprano is a Kamaka, my first uke, the others are my recent builds and all for sale Source link

8/6/2026 0 Comments   L TO R   SOPRANO   CONCERT   TENOR   BARITONETHE THREE BIG ONES ARE AVAILABLE, GIVE ME A CALL 0 Comments Leave a Reply. Source link

This baby sounds as good as it looks. The body wood is Palo Escrito, a popular guitar wood in Mexico.  The soundboard, Sonic graded Lutz Spruce from our local Pacific Rim Tonewoods.  The neck is Black Walnut and the peghead plate European Birch.  This is a good one. Source link

  Always fun to have visitors to the shop,  Yesterday Shane from British Columbia and his wife J J dropped by to have strap buttons put on their ukes.  They also bought a couple of my colorful straps.  Shane was kind of intrigued with this unique soprano with a tenor neck and a doubled octave

  These fine grain pieces of Sitka Spruce will become the tone bars of tenor uke #273.  They will be carved into proper shape as dictated by the Kasha bracing system,  then glued to the underside of the soundboard. They are placed in their proper position on the Western Red Cedar soundboard awaiting the whittling

BY NICOLAS GRIZZLE | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE Ray Vincent’s ukuleles look more like something you’d find under the sea than at a local ukulele jam. But they sure do sound right at home among a school of other four-strings. From his garage workshop in eastern Ontario, Canada, Vincent crafts ukes with

BY CHRISTOPHER DAVIS-SHANNON | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE “El Manisero,” or “The Peanut Vendor,” was written by Cuban composer and pianist Moisés Simons in 1927 in the style of a traditional street vendor’s cry. The song quickly became a major hit as a vocal tune, beginning with the first recording by singer

BY NICOLAS GRIZZLE | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE Good Morning Bedlam is an aptly-named band, for experiencing them is indeed like waking up to a scene of uproar and confusion. The Minneapolis, Minnesota–based folk rock duo is all over the map when it comes to styles, instrumentation, and emotions.   “We’ll go

BY EDDIE SCHER | FROM THE SUMMER 2026 ISSUE OF UKULELE MAGAZINE The 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exhibition in San Francisco celebrated the completion of the Panama Canal and the city’s recovery from the 1906 earthquake. It also widely introduced ukulele and Hawaiian music to mainland U.S. audiences. Yes, both were already here, but the Hawaiian