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Coupons

• Ukulele World: UW77 saves 7.7% on anything they sell.

Ukulele Makers and shops:

• Jazz Box Ukes Arch top ukes at good prices. Reviews I've found all rave.
  • Prefer durable/hardy construction/materials but not at sacrifice of sound/tone.
  • Floating Fretboard
  • Radius Fretboard
  • Blank Fret board w/ small dots on top/edge of neck.
  • Probably ebony fretboard
  • Hand Guard
  • Simple binding
  • Leaning toward cut-away
  • Leaning toward violin cut-outs.
  • Leaning toward lighter colored body w/ dark accents similar to this one or this.

• Kamaka Ukulele.
  • Standard w/ matte finish, ebony fingerboard/bridge/faceplate, geared tuners.
  • Tenor w/ matte finish, ebony fingerboard/bridge/faceplate, geared tuners... ponder an 8 string, can you just remove 4 strings and play it like a regular 4 string? Hrrmmmm... and what strings do you run on an 8?
• Kanile'a Tenor

• Flea: Koa top, rosewood fingerboard, walnut neck, ... add PegHead tuners for $69.
• UkuleleUprising. Larry is the guy here that Darla got her Kamaka Tenor from.
• Pua Pua, huge selection w/ some less common makes.
• Big Island Ukuleles ...also called "Honu" meaning Turtle. The owner has a interesting forum post explaining why his ukes are a great deal even tho they're made in Taiwan. The "Big Island Koa Tortoise Rope": KI-KTOE-TRC, cutaway w/ pickup for $919 is nice. Karl V. recommends this maker.
• Lanikai Ukes is an economical uke Karl V. recommends. I'm not sure I like as much how they look but be interested to see some and listen to them. Here's one at Ukulele World for $289, looks nice.
• Mele Ukulele, just stumbled across these... no idea how good they are...
• Gomes Ukuleles, Karl V. couldn't say enuf good about this guy's ukes.
• LoPrinzi Ukes, highly recommended on some forums for good sound and quality builds.
• Kamoa, Worth looking into as a quality uke w/ good sound at good price.
• Earnest Instruments StradUke as played by John King

Tenor Cutaway w/ Slotted headstock

• Ko Olau.
  • Ko'olau Model T-100, Geared Tuners, Satin Finish Tenor 4 ($1275) or 8 String (+200) w/ Cutaway Body (+$400), Slothead Headstock (+250): $1925/4string, $2125/8string.
  • Pono Pro-Classic Series Rosewood RTSHC Tenor Cutaway w/ slotted headstock: $919.00
  • Pono Maple Pro-Classic Series Pono MPTC-E Tenor Cutaway, I think you can get this w/ cutout headstock, very pretty uke.

• KoAloha Ukuleles.

• Lanikai Tenor Cutaway slotted head w/ pickup:
  • UkuleleWorld $369.
  • UkuleleWorld $369.

• Kala makes a tenor cutaway w/ slotted head, $549.
• Kala Koa Tenor Cutaway standarnd headstock: $520.

• Ohana TK-75CG $629.

Fluke:

Koa w/ wood fretboard...

Strings

Karl Villaverde likes to run concert strings on his sopranos. Elderly seems to have the best pricing on Aquila Nylgut strings:

• AQUILA NYLGUT CONCERT UKE SET: HiG, $5.
• AQUILA NYLGUT CONCERT UKE SET LoWoundG: $5.45.
• AQUILA CONCERT UKE SINGLE LoWoundG: $1.80.
• AQUILA NYLGUT TENOR UKE SET: HiG, $5.
• AQUILA NYLGUT TENOR UKE SET LoWoundG: $5.45
• AQUILA TENOR UKE SINGLE LoWoundG: $1.80.

Banjolele

• Flea came out w/ one, Kent's got one, need to check it out.

Amplified Ukes

• review on UkuleleHunt
• Tenor Risa at UkuleleWorld.
• Soprano Risa $282.
• Eleuke Pineapple $209 for the Soprano, but can be found for around $185 on Amazon and Ukulele Guy.

• One of these Roland Mobile Cube Amp, $169 or the MicroCube for $129.
• ...with one of these VOX mini-amp $35 from Amazon for headphones would make a great quiet traveling Uke... and doesn't seem like it would be TOO hard to make one...

Thin-line travel Ukes

...like the Kala reviewed here on UkeHunt and supposedly good pricing at Bananas At Large (tax) and Elderly(no tax):

• Bananas At Large Tenor.
• Soprano Mahogany
• Soprano Lacewood

Misc:

• Ukulele Guy: store.
• Easy Ukulele Store.

• DaddyBone, some fun tunez.

• PlayOn Tuner... got a Snark, dig it.
• GString tuner for Android

Make yer own ukulele:

• Pure Timber
• Rainy Day Ukes.
• House and Mill

Nice looking strap design.

Instructional

• Chord Magic etc...
• Ukulele Underground
  • All UU Videos.
  • UkeMinutes.
• Hawaii Music Supply
• General reference.
• EzFolk, all sorts of stuff.
• PDF_Minstrel... lots of PDFs of tabs and info.
• Ukulele Hunt Lessons.
• Fingerpicking on EZ-Folk... lots of other stuff
• How to play John Kings Chopsticks YouTube Tutorial by Raggy Ragsdale

Strumming

• Pick/Strum
• Claw Hammer
• 13 Strum Patterns on UkuleleHunt.
• Strum Blocking on UkeHunt

Notes

Steel Strings: "Dag" from UkeHunt recommends: "If you go with steel, my instincts advise that you stick with solid extruded steel strings. Avoid “wound” strings. I think the tone quality will be much better with solids. If you go with steel, take a week to properly “extend” the strings (versus stretching them). Tighten them up little by live over the course of a day. Once you hit tune, play the strings until they go out of tune. Then, tune again and let them sit over night. Due this for about 7 days or so, and your strings will be tempered. This will preserve the sound quality in the long term and will help you avoid warping the neck."

Tabs

• Ukulele-Tabs.com
• UkuleleSongs and Tuner
• List of Free sites w/ tabs.
• Tri-Tabs and other kewl stuff.
  • Video of Tarrega's Study in E Minor
• Crazy (Gnarls Barkely Uke Cover
  • PDF of the tabs.
• Dueling Banjos.
• Lets Play Ukulele: Lots of stuff, searchable.
• Alligator Boogaloo, some fun stuff here and a nice Tab Chart.
• Lets Play Ukulele Tabs.
• Tropical Storm Hawaii.
• AKulule Tabs
• Ukulele Mike Lynch Home Page
  • Ukulele Mike's Capotasto Music Tabs and Sheet Music.
  • Ukulele Mike YouTube Tutorial on Komoko
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Videos

• YouTube Vid of mmbrown82 covering Smashing Pumpkins "Medellia"... Nice. Try to find tabs for this.

Building an Uke

• Supplies
• [ http://www.ukuleles.com/ Bunch of misc stuff] but in particular go here.

Web Sites

• The Jumping Flea: Kind of a blog w/ reviews.
• Easy Ukulele: Lots of info...
• Elderly Instruments: Store.

• Ukulele Player: PDF Publication
• Ukulele Hunt: Info...
• Ukulele Player Mag
• Uke of Carl, interesting Covers and stuff.
• Uke of Carl on UkeHunt blog post
• Ukulele Dav YouTube channel, classical.