Comments on: Ukelele Splendour!

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:34:40 +0000

I have no idea what GUT is &, frankly, I don’t think I fucking want to. ‘That there’ London is an affectionate, if not barbed, Welshism – a distancing mechanism. In the same way we describe going ‘up’ to ‘that there London’ & having them there Londoners coming ‘down’ to Wales.

Anyway, I got to Duke of Uke & purchased a tartan cover )

There wasn’t too many choices, but I liked the yellow zip & polka dot interior lining. £30 well spent. Fucking lovely Ukes, there, though, in DoU. If I’d been on a mad-spending spree trip I’d have had one or two in a blink.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:17:34 +0000

Please no. I’ll have to start handing out bannings on this site in revenge for the number of bans I’ve had from GUT.

By: Mrs Toad

Mrs Toad — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:40:28 +0000

DC. That There London? You wouldn’t be a GUT board user would you? Only people I know call it That London.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:28:00 +0000

Violin tuning. It’s a fucker. Especially if you’re using the old elastic nylon strings.

Toad, I’m in that there London end of next week so shall try & make my way over to buy one )

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:19:17 +0000

I tried playing a ukulele the other day, they have this weird re-entrant tuning thing going on where the strings don’t progress from low to high as you look down onto the instrument. Confusing – but intriguing.

It actually made strumming your basic chords fairly straighforward – if I could get the fucker to stay in tune for more than ten seconds.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:49:36 +0000

I expect a successful report from at least one Uke Bag-seeking Toadling by the end of the week. Buy one for us, people, and send me a picture!

By: Sugar Kane

Sugar Kane — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:37:33 +0000

While we’re being pedantic: Sugar Kane is not a stripper name, it is the name of the uke-toting character played by Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot.

The Jolie Holland song is lovely!

And yes you’ll find the bags at the Duke of Uke – well worth a look if you have never been!
22 Hanbury Street • London • E1 6QR

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:13:48 +0000

Fucking pedants.

By: Drunk Country

Drunk Country — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:12:27 +0000

I’m gonna get me one of these, what with being a uke player & owner of a lovely little shiny purple beast. Now now, Toad, You know what I mean.

&, for the sake of being a pedant’s pedant, I always spell it ukulele (the correct way, really) – the extra “e” spelling is viewed in the uke world in the same way as whiskey is in malt circles.

By: The Daily Growl

The Daily Growl — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:27:06 +0000

I wonder if they’re on sale in London’s premier ukulele emporioum The Duke of Uke on Hanbury Street. I have (as Mr Toad has) looked in the window, but wondered if there was any point going in. Maybe now there is…