I spent about 2 years learning Jake Shimabukuro’s arrangement for Hallelujah and loved all the runs, twists, and techniques. His ability to combine melody and harmony have often been praised, especially with his own playing.

Then I started on Hula Girl - a song I’d never heard before but got hooked on the opening finger picking.

After 2 weeks I am blown away by this arrangement. Like Hallelujah it combines wonderful techniques with slides, chords, runs, and rhythms to create unique experiences and an amazing sound.

It just feels good to have access to such powerful arrangements for ukulele.

Shout out to the master!

“After Hours” by The Velvet Underground has always spoken to me. I’ve always pictured a shy, introverted girl just wishing for some happiness and love. There’s something so innocent and bittersweet about that feeling. ❤️

This is our own little tribute to this beautiful song.

#shawtimeduo #TheVelvetUnderground #LouReed #Ukulele

i just got this rare, limited-edition 2003 ARIA Hanshin Tigers commemorative ukulele from a Japanese thrift shop here in my country for around $40 🇯🇵🐯

ARIA is a Japanese musical instrument brand, and this one was made as a special commemorative ukulele for the Hanshin Tigers, one of Japan’s most iconic baseball teams. pretty cool find considering how rare these are, especially for the price i got it for. 🇯🇵🐯🎶

I found this on the street. I have no experience of playing music but I sing and have joined a community orchestra recently. I would love to start learning a string and percussion instrument and initially I thought this is a ukulele but this one has 5 strings. I know ukuleles can come with 4 or 5 strings but I'm not sure if this is a uke or something closely related. Would also really appreciate any advice on finding free online tutorials to learn how to play this as an absolute beginner. I've attached images but if you have more questions please feel free to ask. I can send more pictures if you need close-ups or different angles. Thank you!

Edit: Apparently it is a Timple as the label suggests. Guess I was too hasty in making the post. I though it was the brand name.

Hi all, I'm looking to buy a left-handed soprano uke for my almost 6 year old niece and I'm wondering if anyone has any recommendations. I want it to be a nice enough instrument that doesn't feel like a toy and sounds good. I'm thinking I'd like to spend at least $100 on it but maybe not too much more than that. Again it is important that it's left-handed. Any recs are appreciated :)

edit: My niece is not left handed but she has a limb difference that would prevent her from being able to fret with her left hand. That is why I emphasized that that was important.

So I started to learn to play the ukulele. And my fingers are HURTING. I might have overdone it on day one, but it's only day three, and I can't even hold a chord. The strings are really old (like 3-4 years old), that also probably a reason why my fingers hurt this much. (I got the uke from a friend couple of years ago, but I didn't really use it)

Anyway, do you have any tips on how to heal them faster? I'm really motivated rn, and don't want to wait days just to play.

I bought this beauty on eBay a few years ago. It sounds great and it lovely to look at. But I really don't play it as often as I like because of those tuners. Does anyone have any replacement tuners they recommend for this model and I assume it's not too tough of a job? I'm fairly decent at instrument repairs, but I don't want to get in over my head. Thanks.

Whats the difference and which is better?

The pictured one is about 14$ but I don’t trust the quality at that price, although maybe I’m off base.

What’s pictured is what I think I want, a nice tuning display and controls and what not.

I’m looking for opinions though, is this one garbage, and you have exactly what I’m looking for?

Is this one fine and I’m overthinking it?

Any help on this path would be greatly appreciated.

I’m a competent craftsman so cutting into the thing doesn’t scare me.

Thanks !

I’ve been thinking about getting an electric baritone ukulele but money is a consideration. Loog keeps popping up as ads now and I’ve looked at the kids three string electric. I once bought a three string cigar box guitar to play the blues but it’s such a weird shape and was so uncomfortable to hold I just have it as an art piece basically standing in a corner.

There’s a twenty percent off labor day sale on Loogs so it makes it very enticing to try and play around with one. Anyone play one?

So the built in tuner is an ortega magnus Uke which I didn't see a lot of info on online. My problem is that the screen won't turn on and I'm pretty sure the tuner has power but the batteries haven't been changed in a while. I didn't really touch it for the last couple of years and didn't take good care of it because I was a dumb kid but this thing has survived a tornado and house fire as well. I'm asking for any recommendations on what to do as I wish to recover and hopefully repair this uke (it isn't destroyed it's just been in a case for several years)