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Author Topic: "Well, I've been cleaning windows, to earn an honest bob" - the Ukelele is back.  (Read 1148 times)
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« Reply #30 on: 12:35:27, 18-10-2007 »

Just listened to the 'Wuthering Heights' ukelele version.... mmm not for me, sorry. It reminds me of the guitar club I formed when teaching in the 60s, only we used the right hand as well, not just that strum sound.

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« Reply #31 on: 13:03:46, 18-10-2007 »

I've remembered the verse Formby omits on the clip:

In my grandad's flannelette nightshirt I got married one day.
In the train my bride gave a shout:
"Ee, what is that you are pulling out?"
I said "It's old fashioned and it's tattered and torn,
But I brought it with me honeymooning, Gert."
She says "What is it, dear?"
So I whisper in her ear
"It's my grandad's flannelette shirt!" 
Lordie, lordie,
It's my grandad's flannelette shirt

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« Reply #32 on: 17:26:09, 18-10-2007 »


PW, how nice to see you back at the ancestral haunts once more - have you been allowed out to play? Wink   


Since PW is supreme Mekon of that particular universe, he can do just what he likes.  The "Semiotics at Blandings Castle" thread there is fabulous.
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« Reply #33 on: 21:41:31, 18-10-2007 »

Pw really gets into his moderator's role at M&S.

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« Reply #34 on: 22:10:47, 29-05-2008 »

True devotees of the ukelele will not pass up the chance to bid at auction on instruments owned and played by the immortal George Formby:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7426437.stm
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« Reply #35 on: 22:58:42, 29-05-2008 »

I have a ukelele at home.  Just how am I supposed to tune it?

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« Reply #36 on: 23:01:07, 29-05-2008 »

Depends on the size

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukulele
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« Reply #37 on: 23:35:29, 29-05-2008 »

I have a ukelele at home.  Just how am I supposed to tune it?

Whenever you can be certain that no-one who respects you will be looking Wink  I would recommend going abroad, perhaps to the Fjords of Norway, where no-one will ever know your secret Smiley

Alternatively you could have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukelele#Tuning

We used a (lurid pink) ukelele in a show (Berlin cabaret songs of the 1920s-30s) and no-one knew how to play the thing - Natasha, one of our violinists who also plays the guitar for fun, managed to tune it to open fifths as a workaround, and then strummed it with fiddle fingerings.  This was as much as we needed,  just some chord-plunking - I don't think too many ukelele bods were offended Wink The top string wouldn't take an e', though...  she got it up to about a c', tuned the rest of the strings from that one, and then we just transposed the part in Finale... she made-up her own chord-fingerings. Oh, and she tap-danced in the middle of the number too, but not whilst playing the uke Smiley
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