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Location: Le Havre (France) | I know there're some fans of Uke, if you don't know this site, you should put an eye on it :
Ukulele Disco
This guy is really impressive :
Jake
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EDIT : and for O's fans :
O\'s Uke
O\'s Uke 2 |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Well, we know what Witko will be doing for the next week... |
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Location: boulder | I recently bought the Jake Shimabukuro CD with this tune on it. Man this guy burns it up. I highly recommend a listen, or three. he just tears it up. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | He is also on tour with Jimmy Buffet as a band member... |
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Location: Le Havre (France) | This one is quite funny (with an O's Uke) :
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Originally posted by fugot:
I recently bought the Jake Shimabukuro CD with this tune on it. Man this guy burns it up. I highly recommend a listen, or three. he just tears it up. If you go on page "2005/2004", you'll see some of his performances.
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | This is impressive. I am from the islands and spent most of my life building ukulele the traditional way. This person has tones of skills, no doubt. But he sounds like guitar player to me and he is missing what we polinesian call the Patapata, which is the rythm or the beat on which we play the ukulele. Even the ovation ukulele, the good model not the other cheap ones, doesn't have a ukulele sound.
Two things that make a ukulele sound like nothing else. The strings (very unique strings, not the ones you buy at guitar center) and construction of a ukulele. It is not the same as a guitar. Unfortunatly, oer the years and with tourism and big guitar companies, the building of a real ukulele has disapear, more or less, to the profit of guitar style ukulele.
My favorit ukulele to play would be a 8 strings. I'm gonna a picture of the last one i made right before coming to the USA.
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Here it is. His name is Honu which means Sea Turtle in polynesian. I have finished carving the head stock, i don't know if you can see on the pictures, but it is a traditional tribal Honu, and i still have to carve the body. It's made out of 3 different types of wood from the islands and entirely hand made the way the original ukulele were made turn of the century. It an art that is being a little more lost everyday. So i learned it when i was a kid. I'm patenting the design and everything that goes with. Patent pending to be exact.
LEt me know what you think. I might be making a couple this coming year if anybody is interrested.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Wow...
Ced meet Dave.
Dave this is Ced. |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Here it is.
Enjoy
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | I didn't people in the usa and in other countries than tahiti and hawaii liked ukulele. I'm happy to see that there are people who enjoy that kind of sound. It's making me a little home sick.
It is great tho that you apreciate ukuleles.
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Who is Dave? Sorry if this was a jock and i didn't understand.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Dave is no Jock! LOL
He is Standingovation though. |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Oh! Okay. And does he like ukes?
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Waow Ced, what a beautiful instrument !
Very nice job !
Thank's ! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by Ced:
Oh! Okay. And does he like ukes?
THX If you only knew...
I'd start sleeping with one eye open, if I were you... |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | De rien! You're welcome!!!!!!
Merci du compliment. Thanks for the compliment.
Now i fell like making a new one, my first made in the USA, with american wood, and a round back. This one is not a round back, but it's not flat either. I guess it's in between.
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Location: Upper Left USA | Ced,
Standing O (Dave) is an avid Ukulele-ist and seeing that you have introduced us to yet another facet of Ukes - Island Traditional - I can only imagine his fascination and GAS pains to come. |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | I can't wait to hear what Standingovation has to say about Honu, now. But it's not for sale and not to be stolen either. hahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | I forgot to say, if only you could hear the sound of that thing.
I'm gonna try to record it somehow, since i saw on another post that people can put sound files or something. You hear and you imediatly think "yep, that's it. That the ukulele sound everybody wants but very very very few people have".
I'll see what i can do, but don't promise i'll be able to put a sound file here.
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Originally posted by Ced:
De rien! You're welcome!!!!!!
Merci du compliment. Thanks for the compliment.
Hihihi ! Il va y avoir de plus en plus de français sur ce site !!
-> Hihihi ! There'll be more and more frenchies on this site !! |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Oui. I found this website looking for an elite 1868-c. Man, am i glad, just a little not too much, that somebody stole that elite from me, otherwise i would never have found this website.
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Location: Le Havre (France) | Les boules... Do you recover your guitar ? |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Dude, this beauty was stolen in 2005. About a year after a got it. I didn't even have time memorise anything but that it was an elite like i never saw, and it sounded so great. I looked and looked...ect until about a month ago when i found this forum. So i asked around and the nice people out here helped me to identified the 1868-C. So now i'm looking everywhere to see if i can get one back. And of course, the ones i found have been sold already. This guitar was very special to me. I've trying to get one back for 10 years now. Wow, time flies. !0 years already!!!????
Anybody has one they want to sell to me. I got 700.00 dollars, that should cover it. Maybe a little more.
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Location: Le Havre (France) | It's very hard to see his guitar fly away because with a guitar you share a lot of emotional times.
Keep on Ced !
I'm sure you'll find what you look for. |
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Location: Studio City, California, USA | Thank you for the link. I have been all over ebaySSSSSS canada, itlay, france...ect
And of course none of them are cedar. Hahahahahaha!!!!! I missed one on ebay that went for a little under 700, just a few days before i found that site.
I'm waiting and on the look out. One shows up somewhere and it's coming home, finaly, after all those years.
Thank you very much for all your suport. I grately aprciate it. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Dave (StandingOvation) is a uke junkie!
He probably owns close to a dozen. |
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