Re: NMD and a little story
Originally Posted by
Sue Rieter
So wait, do you have a ukulele, too? I don't see it on your list
I would think you would need one now.
(That's a cool story, BTW. What a great way to bond with your granddaughter across the miles !)
Sue, I don't have a ukulele yet. I have my eye on one, but we're wrangling with the insurance company over some storm damage, and I'm doing my best to exercise spending restraint until that mess is resolved.
Meanwhile, Fiona, who's the size of a tenor guitar, makes a fine stand-in. She's the proper shape (or close enough) for me to demonstrate how to hold the instrument, she has 4 courses, so I can demonstrate fretting ok, too, when needed. Then I move my fingers around so my G chord sounds like her G chord.
I think Miss Daphne Kate may have a lap steel guitar in her future. She always wants to lay her ukulele flat in her lap (I believe so she can see everything.)
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Originally Posted by
NDO
That’s awesome Sheila!
My oldest daughter visited last week and I was super happy when she picked up the uke in the spare room and started playing some chords. She has her own uke but hasn’t gotten to the level obsession yet where she carries it all around the country like I do with my mandos
Imagine a world where standard hospitality included maintaining instruments for frequent visitors who are musicians.
Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
Dolly, my 2021 Ibanez M522 mandolin
Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
Fiona, My 2021 GSM guitar-bodied octave resonator mandolin
Charlotte, my 2016 Eastman MDO 305 octave mandolin
And Giuliana, my 2002 Hans Schuster 505 violin, Nehenehe, my 2021 Aklot concert ukulele,
Annie, my 2022 Guild M-140 guitar, Joni, my 1963 Harmony 1215 Archtone archtop guitar,
Yoko, my ca. 1963 Yamaha Dynamic No.15 guitar, and Rich, my 1959 husband.
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