ukulele

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I bought a ukulele! Seems like it will be fun to learn how to play and a portable instrument for my escape!
 
You can play pretty softly they are pretty quite not as loud as most conversations. Not nearly as loud as the neighbors rap music or the playing children. I will be a very bad player for a while so i don't really want to subject anyone to it.
 
Better a Uke, then someone playing scales on a violin.

I take my guitar and find it attracts other musicians- in July, at a small camp ground, we had every camper hanging around our site- some dancing!

We played swing, country, old R&R- great fun.
 
UkuleleMark is a member here on the EscapeForum and has a 5.0TA in the pipeline. Wowser can he play! Great all around entertainer. He entertained us at the Oregon Gathering several years back.

I bet he'd really encourage your learning! Me too.
 
Was never particularly fond of the ukulele, & it always made me think of Don Ho, but then a few years ago heard a fellow, don't remember a name, playing blues ukulele at the Comox Valley music festival. I went to the stage expecting a joke, but he was amazing! Changed my whole outlook (outhear?)
 
I bought a ukulele! Seems like it will be fun to learn how to play and a portable instrument for my escape!

You would be welcome around our campfire any time. Rarely a night goes by without some playing of guitars and singing. One of the great things about camping, in my mind.

On the rare occasions when in campgrounds, I play more quietly, and not late. It very often draws in other musicians, or just others who love music.

This is old, but I have always loved it. Check out some of his other stuff, and while you are at it, find even more great ukulele music on YouTube.

 
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I know a guy who had a backpacker guitar for travel - not as small as a ukulele, but more compact than a normal acoustic guitar.

Another approach to compact stringed instruments is an electric version. There is the well-known electric guitar, but now there are electric violins and cellos, which play like the traditional acoustic but don't have the big soundbox. They can also be used quietly - with headphones - for practice or just to avoid annoying neighbors.
 
You would be welcome around our campfire any time. Rarely a night goes by without some playing of guitars and singing. One of the great things about camping, in my mind.

On the rare occasions when in campgrounds, I play more quietly, and not late. It very often draws in other musicians, or just others who love music.

This is old, but I have always loved it. Check out some of his other stuff, and while you are at it, find even more great ukulele music on YouTube.


NICE! :thumb: Pat
 
Some people have the talent to make great music, even with inferior instruments. These guys do a very credible job with a cheap plastic walmart guitar:

 
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It's all about the musician not the instrument (says the tone-deaf guy who couldn't play a musical instrument if his life depended on it!) -- witness this guy (we had him for comic relief at a corporate retreat several decades ago):

 
I'm an adequate guitar player -- been doing the same strums and picks for 40 odd years -- It's kind of a prop so I can sing folk music -- I had a martin travel guitar for years but being merely an adequate guitar player I couldn't make it sound like much. So now I have a mini Taylor -- I switch it back and forth from the trailer to the car -- I had hoped it would fit in the closet in the 19 but it takes up too much room so I put it in the corner of the dinette when it's not in the car. It''s lightweight and I don't have to baby it like I do my good guitar at home.

It makes a difference having music, especially on those rainy days we were talking about in another thread.
 

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