I was just thinking that there isn't much heard around where i'm from about the use of ukeleles in ITM
I don't play the uke myself, but I do play the tenor guitar, which seems similar enough to the tenor uke. The sound of tenor ukeleles in other music leads me to believe that it would be a nice addition to the tradition,
jlocky;
Have you ever collected hot water bottles of the famous? or had an interest in wig glue? And before taking a ukulele to a session make sure you have the appropriate selection of trousers to change.
Actually, a friend of mine preceded the Walendas. In the early 70’s he did, in fact, play trad tunes on a uke tuned in fifths. He couldn’t afford a tenor banjo or mandolin and there was an old uke in the family, so he made the best of it.
Not sure how I feel about ukes. My initial feeling is that it is a bit too alien culturally. In other words, it's a Polynesian instrument as opposed to other instruments that have been introduced to the tradition that are at least somewhat geographically relevant (banjo, mando, etc.). Whatever, I'm not sure how much of a bearing that has. I just have a hard time wrapping my brain around a uke.
I would like to add a question, however. How do you all feel about the use of hurdy gurdy in this music? It has certainly been done by Andy Irvine, and others I think. It's not a directly connected instrument and bit of an oddball instrument to begin with, but it does seem to have some relevance sonically to the music and also shares some geography and history with other relevant instruments. Not meaning to take the thead away from the OP, but, in all fairness, the word random is in the title.
My wife has been taking a Uke into her children's music sessions, and they love it! I think it's the small size that appeals, and the friendly-looking nature of it. Don't know if you'd get the same reaction in a session, but I guess you could try, and let us know how it went. I quite like the sound of them.
It is most important to remember that there are (basically) three ukuleles: Treble, Tenor & Baritone.
Don't get confused and think the tenor is analogous to the Tenor Banjo or Tenor Four String Devil.
The treble is the Tiny Tim/ Tessie O'Shea job.Tuned G C A E (with the G string an octave higher than you'd expect. This means the thin strings are on the outside and this increases the plunka plunka-ness of the strumming. This is referred to as're-entrant tuning)
The Tenor is tuned the same but because of the larger body has a deeper tone-BUT you can go non-re-entrant and tune it G C A E with the G low)
The Baritone is normally tuned D G B E (non-re-entrant) just like the top four of the standard six string devil.
The strings by the way are preferably gut (or nylon or synthetic gut type nylon) this means they do not have a metallic twangy sound, they are rather more like a classical six string devil or even a lute, oud or maybe harp.
They are a bit quiet for seesion melody playing but good for chordal backing- well the baritone is. I find my Teonor and Trebles far to plunka-ry.
No, yhaalhouse, there are FOUR ukes, soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone, in order of size. Where's this 'treble' come from ? Have you been mislead by Wikipedia ?
And they are only Hawaiian by adoption, like many instruments all over the globe, their roots being elsewhere, in this case from a Portugese instrument taken over by the Portugese, probably Azorian, sailors working on American whaling ships in the 19th century. ( Not a lot of people know that. )
And the rest is history.
I'd just like to say that my Good Lady Wife brings her uke to sessions, plunking it along behind my halting version of "Hens March to the Midden" on the English concertina, and other such diversions from the Pure Drop.
Just a bit of fun really.
PS; Batlady, yes ukes are a little on the quite side, quite fun in fact.
As Loudoun Wainwright said, "It's hard to be miserable when you're playing a ukulele."
Although he hasn't heard my wife's version of "Father, dear father, come home to us now."
"Not sure how I feel about ukes. My initial feeling is that it is a bit too alien culturally. In other words, it's a Polynesian instrument as opposed to other instruments that have been introduced to the tradition that are at least somewhat geographically relevant (banjo, mando, etc.)."
That doesn't really hold much water, as the Ukulele's origins are European (its similarity to the guitar is not mere co-incidence), being descended from, or at the very least, sharing a common origin with the Portuguese cavaquinho. The ukulele is, I suppose, a uniquely Hawaiian development, so you could argue, 'Why introduce an instrument all the way from the S. Pacific when you could introduce a very similar one from Portugal?'
But if you put forward that sort of argument, then the banjo (W. African, via N. America) is on equally shaky ground. The credentials of the banjo in Irish music are, I think, simply that it was popular in America at a time when there was a lot of immigration from Ireland. I would be surprised if there were not a sizable Irish community in Hawaii, being part of the US, so I don't see the Ukulele's geographical/cultural credentials as being any less than those of the banjo.
I would certainly not object to a Ukulele in an Irish session, if it were played sympathetically. I would be surprised if, as a melody instrument, it would have the power for dance music (It still has to have the 'dance' in it, even if no-one is dancing to it.). As a chord instrument, I imagine that the temptation for a guitarist to try and emulate the volume of the guitar by thrashing it would be great - and the result, not so great. But in a situation where it does not have to compete for audibilty - say, accompanying one or two melody instruments - I cannot see any reason why it couldn't be just as effective as a guitar, bouzouki, octave mandolin etc.
I too am fascinated by hurdy-gurdy's, although I've never touched one. I've been to a couple of house parties where a group get together to play Frech trad hurdy-gurdy music and dance, complete with the buzzing bridge. I'm surprised that, with it's drones and bagpipish tonality that you don't see them used more for Irish trad. It may be because they are expensive instruments, and I've heard a bit tempermental to maintain. Then again, that doesn't seem to stop pipers.
I imagine the appearance of a hurdy-gurdy at a session would meet with roughly equal parts enthusiam and dismay.
Back in Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s I certainly heard ukes played at the occasional session. Out here in Tassie they are a little more common, perhaps because we are in the same ocean as Hawaii.
And at some beginners’ classes in Hobart last year there were participants who were learning Irish tunes on ukes.
As to what might be deemed a traditional instrument, who can say? Most of the instruments played in ITM are not of Irish origin. Maybe the gift to make Irish music sound right emanates from how the tunes are played and not what instrument is used.
I remember a number of years ago a big Irish night in Preston, Lancashire. Kevin Taylor, a lovely accordion player sadly no longer with us, sat at an electric organ and played fabulous Irish music.
I'd have to admit that Don Ho played for much better looking dancers with more appealing costumes. Hawaiians really know how to party that much is very true.
But bringing a uke gives me visions of intolerant people pulling off an attempted Pete Townshendesque act of Quickdraw Mcgraw's El Kabong.
Hold it, Hooooawld it! I'll do the thinnin' 'round 'ere!!
The uke is getting popular in schools in my area (perhaps elsewhere in the UK) as an inexpensive and easy way of introducing children to playing a stringed instrument and making music - so that can't be anything but good. This is good business for the local music shops.
Irish tunes are a bit limited on the uke - I've been playing ITM on it for a while, but the range isn't really there and the volume is sadly lacking. It can sound nice, though. It can sound quite good with modal chord backing too. Thinking about trying out a resonator uke - more volume and a much warmer tone than the banjolele.
Got 50+ kids playing the uke at my school now (I'm a music teacher), but not tried ITM with them yet - maybe something to aspire to, if only to torture my more sensitive friends at the session!
There's a fiddler here who's been bringing, I think, a baritone uke - maybe a tenor, I don't know the one from the other - to sessions lately. She plays rhythm on it, not melody, and sounds very good. Quiet, though, which I think is how she likes it. So it can be done - for melody, though, I don't know.
Here in Paris, France, the hurdy-gurdy's often to be seen in pub sessions - of traditional French music. It's a fantastic instrument. It has great scope for simultaneous melodic & percussive effects. It adds a lot to a session. I've been to sessions with two or three of them. It's lovely. That plus the bagpipes, and the whole place is buzzing!
Guernsey Pete: I did say ‘basically’ and the concert and soprano are so similar I didn’t think it was worth mentioning them separately. I also did not mention the sopranino nor bass, let alone the banjolele et cetera. My knowledge is not derived from Wikipedia, thank you; it is from a life time playing various ukes, you patronizing wossit. Or are you being ‘funny’?
PS: I’ve just checked the infamous Wiki and it initially mentions the four types, so I wonder where you’re coming from!
More on wig glue, hotwater bottles, trouser changing and using baritone uke...
I regularly play a uke at a certain sesh in South London and, of course, anyone’s welcome to come and see how it blends with the mix. I use the baritone and I think it has all the advantages of the six string devil (SSD) plus a few more to boot!
1. It is smaller and lighter to cart about. It goes in its ‘zip-up-pyjamas’ and can be carried over a shoulder without even noticing it is there.
2. There are no ‘bass’ strings. It is tuned like a standard SSD but with the bottom E & A missing. This means the backing you provide is in a similar range to the melody instruments and it doesn’t add that strummy bassy blur that the SSD does.
3. It has gut/ nylon strings which one plays with one’s finger. This means you don’t get the scratchy percussion racket that the plectrum adds when strumming the SSD.
4. You can do nice harpy arpeggios.
5. It has an amazing response and dynamic range.
6. The bottom strings are D & G, very appropriate for this music, especially as the most bottom string is the D, handy for drone-y stuff.
7. It’s not as loud as the SSD and therefore a little more polite, less obtrusive than the SSD can be.
8. Despite being relatively quiet, it can stand up for itself whilst backing quite a large ensemble (as long as there aren’t other strummy things/ keyboard- but I really think backing only works with one chord supplier at a time- unless they have played together loads and understand where each other are likely to go). With a session of say: one set of pipes, 2 fiddles, 2 flutes, 1 box, a whistle and a banjo it is perfect.
9. The baritone is not at all plunka-plunka-y as are the smaller re-entrant tuned models. I suppose it’s the plunka thing that tends to give ukes a zany humourous image and for them not to be taken seriously as instruments. That and the fast increasing market for pink Sponge Bob flying V treble and concert size ukes.
By the way: George Formby played a banjolele which is a treble uke complete with re-entrant tuning and a banjo body
I also play the treble, tenor and banjolele in other music but not very often at sessions as they do not sound all that appropriate! At sessions I break up the baritone uke playing with ‘zouk, occasional SSD (classic nylon strung usually), Indian Harmonium and piano if there is a tuned up one available. I use the banjolele very sparingly, it’s shrill!
If you think playing a baritone uke at sessions upsets people (which it most certainly has and does!) you should what happens when I get out my Stylophone!
Just a bit of a random question/observation!
Just a bit of a random question/observation!
I was just thinking that there isn't much heard around where i'm from about the use of ukeleles in ITM
I don't play the uke myself, but I do play the tenor guitar, which seems similar enough to the tenor uke. The sound of tenor ukeleles in other music leads me to believe that it would be a nice addition to the tradition,
has anyone ever attempted it?
Thanks,
Josh
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by jlocky
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jlocky;
Have you ever collected hot water bottles of the famous? or had an interest in wig glue? And before taking a ukulele to a session make sure you have the appropriate selection of trousers to change.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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"has anyone ever attempted it?"
The Flying Walendas attempted it back in 1978. Without a net! Some of us still remember that fateful day.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Bob himself
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Actually, a friend of mine preceded the Walendas. In the early 70’s he did, in fact, play trad tunes on a uke tuned in fifths. He couldn’t afford a tenor banjo or mandolin and there was an old uke in the family, so he made the best of it.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Bob himself
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Not sure how I feel about ukes. My initial feeling is that it is a bit too alien culturally. In other words, it's a Polynesian instrument as opposed to other instruments that have been introduced to the tradition that are at least somewhat geographically relevant (banjo, mando, etc.). Whatever, I'm not sure how much of a bearing that has. I just have a hard time wrapping my brain around a uke.
I would like to add a question, however. How do you all feel about the use of hurdy gurdy in this music? It has certainly been done by Andy Irvine, and others I think. It's not a directly connected instrument and bit of an oddball instrument to begin with, but it does seem to have some relevance sonically to the music and also shares some geography and history with other relevant instruments. Not meaning to take the thead away from the OP, but, in all fairness, the word random is in the title.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Jimmy B
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My wife has been taking a Uke into her children's music sessions, and they love it! I think it's the small size that appeals, and the friendly-looking nature of it. Don't know if you'd get the same reaction in a session, but I guess you could try, and let us know how it went. I quite like the sound of them.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Mark Harmer
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It is most important to remember that there are (basically) three ukuleles: Treble, Tenor & Baritone.
Don't get confused and think the tenor is analogous to the Tenor Banjo or Tenor Four String Devil.
The treble is the Tiny Tim/ Tessie O'Shea job.Tuned G C A E (with the G string an octave higher than you'd expect. This means the thin strings are on the outside and this increases the plunka plunka-ness of the strumming. This is referred to as're-entrant tuning)
The Tenor is tuned the same but because of the larger body has a deeper tone-BUT you can go non-re-entrant and tune it G C A E with the G low)
The Baritone is normally tuned D G B E (non-re-entrant) just like the top four of the standard six string devil.
The strings by the way are preferably gut (or nylon or synthetic gut type nylon) this means they do not have a metallic twangy sound, they are rather more like a classical six string devil or even a lute, oud or maybe harp.
They are a bit quiet for seesion melody playing but good for chordal backing- well the baritone is. I find my Teonor and Trebles far to plunka-ry.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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I like this - very harp-like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiUNvCEkKvY
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by grego
... also makes me wonder where the idea for "Stairway to Heaven" came from.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by grego
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Someone turned up with a uke at the last session. Couldn't compete with fiddles and banjos--as yaal says, they are a little on the quite side.
Preferable to shaky egg and other random percussive clacking/thumping.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Michele Sims
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Funny. I've never seen anyone show up with shaky egg. I don't know if I would be able to contain my laughter.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Jimmy B
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No, yhaalhouse, there are FOUR ukes, soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone, in order of size. Where's this 'treble' come from ? Have you been mislead by Wikipedia ?
And they are only Hawaiian by adoption, like many instruments all over the globe, their roots being elsewhere, in this case from a Portugese instrument taken over by the Portugese, probably Azorian, sailors working on American whaling ships in the 19th century. ( Not a lot of people know that. )
And the rest is history.
I'd just like to say that my Good Lady Wife brings her uke to sessions, plunking it along behind my halting version of "Hens March to the Midden" on the English concertina, and other such diversions from the Pure Drop.
Just a bit of fun really.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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PS; Batlady, yes ukes are a little on the quite side, quite fun in fact.
As Loudoun Wainwright said, "It's hard to be miserable when you're playing a ukulele."
Although he hasn't heard my wife's version of "Father, dear father, come home to us now."
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Guernsey Pete
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"Not sure how I feel about ukes. My initial feeling is that it is a bit too alien culturally. In other words, it's a Polynesian instrument as opposed to other instruments that have been introduced to the tradition that are at least somewhat geographically relevant (banjo, mando, etc.)."
That doesn't really hold much water, as the Ukulele's origins are European (its similarity to the guitar is not mere co-incidence), being descended from, or at the very least, sharing a common origin with the Portuguese cavaquinho. The ukulele is, I suppose, a uniquely Hawaiian development, so you could argue, 'Why introduce an instrument all the way from the S. Pacific when you could introduce a very similar one from Portugal?'
But if you put forward that sort of argument, then the banjo (W. African, via N. America) is on equally shaky ground. The credentials of the banjo in Irish music are, I think, simply that it was popular in America at a time when there was a lot of immigration from Ireland. I would be surprised if there were not a sizable Irish community in Hawaii, being part of the US, so I don't see the Ukulele's geographical/cultural credentials as being any less than those of the banjo.
I would certainly not object to a Ukulele in an Irish session, if it were played sympathetically. I would be surprised if, as a melody instrument, it would have the power for dance music (It still has to have the 'dance' in it, even if no-one is dancing to it.). As a chord instrument, I imagine that the temptation for a guitarist to try and emulate the volume of the guitar by thrashing it would be great - and the result, not so great. But in a situation where it does not have to compete for audibilty - say, accompanying one or two melody instruments - I cannot see any reason why it couldn't be just as effective as a guitar, bouzouki, octave mandolin etc.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by CreadurMawnOrganig
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I've never played a ukelele but seems like an ok idea to me.
Hurdy-gurdy? Sure, why not.
How about a steel guitar?
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Gringo
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Been discussed here before somewhere - Gerry O'Beirne.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Kenny
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http://www.thesession.org/discussions/display/4365/comments#comment89257
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Kenny
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Hurdy-gurdys are awesome. I'd love to learn how to play one.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by DrSilverSpear
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I too am fascinated by hurdy-gurdy's, although I've never touched one. I've been to a couple of house parties where a group get together to play Frech trad hurdy-gurdy music and dance, complete with the buzzing bridge. I'm surprised that, with it's drones and bagpipish tonality that you don't see them used more for Irish trad. It may be because they are expensive instruments, and I've heard a bit tempermental to maintain. Then again, that doesn't seem to stop pipers.
I imagine the appearance of a hurdy-gurdy at a session would meet with roughly equal parts enthusiam and dismay.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Jimmy B
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As long as you have the monkey in the little hat with a cup on a leash, it's all good.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by SWFL Fiddler
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G’day from down under!
Ukes in sessions are not that new.
Back in Liverpool in the late 70s and early 80s I certainly heard ukes played at the occasional session. Out here in Tassie they are a little more common, perhaps because we are in the same ocean as Hawaii.
And at some beginners’ classes in Hobart last year there were participants who were learning Irish tunes on ukes.
As to what might be deemed a traditional instrument, who can say? Most of the instruments played in ITM are not of Irish origin. Maybe the gift to make Irish music sound right emanates from how the tunes are played and not what instrument is used.
I remember a number of years ago a big Irish night in Preston, Lancashire. Kevin Taylor, a lovely accordion player sadly no longer with us, sat at an electric organ and played fabulous Irish music.
Brian x
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by briantheflute
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I'd have to admit that Don Ho played for much better looking dancers with more appealing costumes. Hawaiians really know how to party that much is very true.
But bringing a uke gives me visions of intolerant people pulling off an attempted Pete Townshendesque act of Quickdraw Mcgraw's El Kabong.
Hold it, Hooooawld it! I'll do the thinnin' 'round 'ere!!
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Lint - upon - Tweed
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Guernsey Pete said a propos the roots of the uke and how it travelled: "Not a lot of people know that"
Well they do now
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
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The uke is getting popular in schools in my area (perhaps elsewhere in the UK) as an inexpensive and easy way of introducing children to playing a stringed instrument and making music - so that can't be anything but good. This is good business for the local music shops.
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by Trevor Jennings
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Irish tunes are a bit limited on the uke - I've been playing ITM on it for a while, but the range isn't really there and the volume is sadly lacking. It can sound nice, though. It can sound quite good with modal chord backing too. Thinking about trying out a resonator uke - more volume and a much warmer tone than the banjolele.
Got 50+ kids playing the uke at my school now (I'm a music teacher), but not tried ITM with them yet - maybe something to aspire to, if only to torture my more sensitive friends at the session!
# Posted on March 11th 2010 by farmerboy
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This has made me want to go out anf buy a cheap uke. It's like an "anti banjo". Quiet and soft. Nice. Harpish. 35 bucks.
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by shanty
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There's a fiddler here who's been bringing, I think, a baritone uke - maybe a tenor, I don't know the one from the other - to sessions lately. She plays rhythm on it, not melody, and sounds very good. Quiet, though, which I think is how she likes it. So it can be done - for melody, though, I don't know.
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by Jon Kiparsky
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I don't know about ukes, but Seamus Egan does a great job playing tunes on a nylon string guitar, which has a similar quality to its tone.
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by AlBrown
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Here in Paris, France, the hurdy-gurdy's often to be seen in pub sessions - of traditional French music. It's a fantastic instrument. It has great scope for simultaneous melodic & percussive effects. It adds a lot to a session. I've been to sessions with two or three of them. It's lovely. That plus the bagpipes, and the whole place is buzzing!
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by GoPlayer
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Guernsey Pete: I did say ‘basically’ and the concert and soprano are so similar I didn’t think it was worth mentioning them separately. I also did not mention the sopranino nor bass, let alone the banjolele et cetera. My knowledge is not derived from Wikipedia, thank you; it is from a life time playing various ukes, you patronizing wossit. Or are you being ‘funny’?
PS: I’ve just checked the infamous Wiki and it initially mentions the four types, so I wonder where you’re coming from!
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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nuke all ukes I say
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by 'S dat you, O'Flibberty?
More on wig glue, hotwater bottles, trouser changing and using baritone uke...
I regularly play a uke at a certain sesh in South London and, of course, anyone’s welcome to come and see how it blends with the mix. I use the baritone and I think it has all the advantages of the six string devil (SSD) plus a few more to boot!
1. It is smaller and lighter to cart about. It goes in its ‘zip-up-pyjamas’ and can be carried over a shoulder without even noticing it is there.
2. There are no ‘bass’ strings. It is tuned like a standard SSD but with the bottom E & A missing. This means the backing you provide is in a similar range to the melody instruments and it doesn’t add that strummy bassy blur that the SSD does.
3. It has gut/ nylon strings which one plays with one’s finger. This means you don’t get the scratchy percussion racket that the plectrum adds when strumming the SSD.
4. You can do nice harpy arpeggios.
5. It has an amazing response and dynamic range.
6. The bottom strings are D & G, very appropriate for this music, especially as the most bottom string is the D, handy for drone-y stuff.
7. It’s not as loud as the SSD and therefore a little more polite, less obtrusive than the SSD can be.
8. Despite being relatively quiet, it can stand up for itself whilst backing quite a large ensemble (as long as there aren’t other strummy things/ keyboard- but I really think backing only works with one chord supplier at a time- unless they have played together loads and understand where each other are likely to go). With a session of say: one set of pipes, 2 fiddles, 2 flutes, 1 box, a whistle and a banjo it is perfect.
9. The baritone is not at all plunka-plunka-y as are the smaller re-entrant tuned models. I suppose it’s the plunka thing that tends to give ukes a zany humourous image and for them not to be taken seriously as instruments. That and the fast increasing market for pink Sponge Bob flying V treble and concert size ukes.
By the way: George Formby played a banjolele which is a treble uke complete with re-entrant tuning and a banjo body
I also play the treble, tenor and banjolele in other music but not very often at sessions as they do not sound all that appropriate! At sessions I break up the baritone uke playing with ‘zouk, occasional SSD (classic nylon strung usually), Indian Harmonium and piano if there is a tuned up one available. I use the banjolele very sparingly, it’s shrill!
If you think playing a baritone uke at sessions upsets people (which it most certainly has and does!) you should what happens when I get out my Stylophone!
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by yhaalhouse
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'I was just thinking that there isn't much heard around where i'm from about the use of ukeleles in ITM'
Perhaps because the idea is a bad joke?!
Go for it! (Somewhere else!)
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by Rob
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ukulele + folk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE
µ
# Posted on March 12th 2010 by Markplucker
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markplucker - I love the UOGB but "Shaft" can't really be classed as folk! Even with its reference to mining
# Posted on March 13th 2010 by farmerboy