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Post by jonnymosco on May 9, 2013 21:03:02 GMT
Ukuleles seem to be all the rage now. First in Endeavour on Sunday, then on The Apprentice on Tuesday.
But £6 trade price? So how much do they cost to make?
Also the clip was really funny, the music shop keeper (the shop on Tottenham Court Road round the corner from Denmark Street?) took an age to tune it and they were in a hurry, very entertaining to watch.
I had hoped that the two teams would have had a choice of ukes or banjos in the large containers to sell, that would have been worth watching.
Jonny
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Post by Martin on May 10, 2013 8:16:39 GMT
I don't watch The Apprentice as I find the 'contestants' far too annoying and I don't like the premise too much, but buying and selling ukes sounds like it would have been fun to see. I don't know how they knock them out so cheaply, but I've seen the very basic kids instruments for sale at around £12 before, so I can believe that trade price. Agreed that banjos would have added that extra exotic spice to the whole thing
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Post by rodders on May 10, 2013 8:35:41 GMT
I don't watch The Apprentice as I find the 'contestants' far too annoying and I don't like the premise too much, but buying and selling ukes sounds like it would have been fun to see. I don't know how they knock them out so cheaply, but I've seen the very basic kids instruments for sale at around £12 before, so I can believe that trade price. Agreed that banjos would have added that extra exotic spice to the whole thing They looked like reasonable quality ukuleles to me, much better than the cheapo one I bought my son for about £15. I bought some new Aquila strings for it, thinking it would sound like a million dollars from this one genius investment. Unfortunately I was wrong. It stays in tune for less than one nano second and is very, very quiet I've thought about getting a decent one, but I'd never play it! :dutch-oven:
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Post by Martin on May 10, 2013 8:39:47 GMT
I got a half-decent one a couple of years ago, and it's good fun to play, but I certainly don't play it often. Re-learning all the chords every time I open the case is getting tiresome
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Post by jonnymosco on May 10, 2013 8:58:42 GMT
It stays in tune for less than one nano second and is very, very quiet If it's the pegs that move/slip, try wrapping some PTFE tape round the tuners, works on Louis'. A quiet uke is surely a good thing? Jonny
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