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Location: Phoenix AZ | Not the biggest Ovation, but probably the most fun the play.
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Location: SoCal | No pickup???
But look at those tuner buttons! Wow! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | They make a Multi-Sound Hole Model with a simple pick-up. Man, I gotta get me one of these! :cool: |
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Location: NJ | That's just like the one I had up in CT.
They ARE a lotta fun!! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Paul - how do you know I didn't have the factory install a thinline pickup and direct out end pin jack ???? |
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Location: NJ | . . . sounds like something he would DO, too . . . |
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Location: SoCal | Cliff's right. It sounds like something Dave would do.
Well, did you? Or are you going to?
I keep thinking of putting a pickup in my travel guitar. It would be so cool. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Pickups in a Uke or travel guitar are a must. Plus I've got one of those hedphones that plugs right into the instrument (no amp required). Otherwise there's no way to hear the darn thing when you travel (i.e. while you stand by the side of the road with your thumb out).
Truth is that I have the parts, but I didn't install the pu yet in the uke. The thinline pu is too long for the little bridge. Can I just CUT it to fit? Probably I need the mando pu. |
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Location: NJ | Why not just get a uke pickup? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | You need to get one with a cutaway too. |
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Location: south east Michigan | An Ovation Multi-hole uke w/pic-up is going to be the only thing on my Christmas list. I saw a guy play some Beatles tunes on a uke at the open mic sessions. I got inspired.
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Location: Scotland | Dave, with small-bodied instruments such as Soprano/Concert Ukes, Tiples & the like undersadlle pickups are not essential. A single or a couple of soundboard transducers and a decent (external) preamp will do a great job. Internal preamps in instruments this small are usually a pain, but the FD endpin pre could work if you can manage external battery access. There are plenty of suitable soundboard transducers available commercially but the old DIY "musical greetings card piezo-disc with the wires reversed" trick works great on Ukes, and Radio Shack sell piezo buzzers for a couple of bucks which can be made into great Uke transducers. |
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