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Old 01-16-2015, 11:35 PM
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Default Enablers thanks- HMS Uke ordered

After watching a brother pickup & buy 2 ukes lately, then reading here and finding the ukulelesite.com I c-listed/sold a couple of extraneous pieces of gear & a bike then ordered a Pono Tenor Mango Deluxe with low G and gotoh UTB banjo looking tuners. Cant wait to get it and will post a pic when it arrives!
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Old 01-17-2015, 03:10 AM
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Congrats - you should check out http://forum.ukuleleunderground.com/forum.php as well!
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Old 01-17-2015, 08:10 AM
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As a fairly new uke player myself (3 months)....welcome to the fold. I hope you have as much fun as I have playing the 'little guys'.

You have lots of odd little chords to learn, but since the uke is tuned to the same intervals as the first four strings of a guitar in standard tuning, things should click fairly quickly for you.

Enjoy.
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Old 01-21-2015, 05:30 AM
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The Pono tenor is fanatastic (you might try a high-G if you really want that distinctive ringing uke sound).

These are two great sites for learning as well:

http://www.ukulelia.com/

http://dominator.ukeland.com/index2.shtml

This is what go me going on uke a decade ago:

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Old 01-21-2015, 07:26 PM
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Shipped! Gotohs wouldn't work on the Pono. They sent a pic of the factory tuner indentions and holes that would show. Must tighten those things with an impact driver so I opted out. Woulda been cool. Lots to learn. In fact starting over really. Thanks for the links Ukejon.
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Old 01-24-2015, 08:00 AM
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Arrived... 2-days Hawaii to Iowa! Will start a NUD thread.
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