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Latest Activity

@larrys • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Keith: Yep, that's the place - Seasons of the Ukulele challenge. Everyone else is better than me, & I seldom 'sing', but I still have fun sometimes,..."

@keith • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Yep, that's the place - Seasons of the Ukulele challenge. Everyone else is better than me, & I seldom 'sing', but I still have fun sometimes, when I..."

@larrys • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Keith: I'll be hosting my uke forum challenge again next week, so I'd better get a bit of practice in this week. Uke forum? Do you mean Ukulele underground?"

@keith • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"I'll be hosting my uke forum challenge again next week, so I'd better get a bit of practice in this week."

@keith • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"I have been having a good time with my M&E 'F' flute this past 2 days, seemed to get the embouchure just right, on some easy tunes. (Have also been..."

@keith • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Cheers, Larry - my high C has a good tone, so this one should have too."

@larrys • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Keith: I won! £26 & it was mine. Yay! Enjoy"

@keith • 3 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"I won! £26 & it was mine."

@keith • 4 days ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Yeah, I know I shouldn't have, but I looked on Ebay......... & there was a pre used Tony Dixon tunable high D in aluminium....... just sitting there..."

@keith • one week ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"I have a feeling that may be due to the prevalence of wound strings on guitars, my ukes have fluorocarbon strings in the main - but I will also be trying it..."

@larrys • one week ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"Keith: Funnily enough, I've just bought a glass slide for my ukes, I'd been been meaning to get one for ages, (about a year actually). I already have a..."

@keith • one week ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"Funnily enough, I've just bought a glass slide for my ukes, I'd been been meaning to get one for ages, (about a year actually)."

@larrys • one week ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"I'm currently enjoying playing with slide guitar in open G tuning. https://youtu.be/Gaoe_TllkO8"

@keith • one week ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "What other instruments do you like to play?":

"Thought I'd try multi tracking a tune using 3 different whistles. Shall We Gather at the River using 3 different whistles"

@strumelia • 3 weeks ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Thanks Keith!The whole reason I can't update my older computer to win 10 is not because it's not capable (it is), but because several of the specialized..."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread":

"Yes, & I have that now - after a bit of 'collecting'. The other day, I just opened the drawer where I keep them, took one out, & just played..."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"You should consider/investigate putting Linux on the old one, it'll be secure, & run faster. But everybody loves having something new to play with."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Favorite whistles":

"I'd likely use the high G, if my fingers didn't rub together on it - the high F is tiny, but fun to play."

@strumelia • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

" I've been drooling over the Dell XPS 13 new laptops... I'll probably buy one for online stuff once the end of the year gets closer where my main work..."

@strumelia • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread":

"If you have a goodly set of nice whistles that you like and play well, I see no reason to keep buying more indefinitely anyway. "

@strumelia • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Favorite whistles":

"The high F seems unusual to add in among the rest of those you listed. Those things are tiny! "

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "Favorite whistles":

"Well, after a period of collecting whistles, , I tend to play my low Ds, low F, As, & high F the most."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Positive Thread":

"I seem to have stopped buying them! Just need to play them more now."

@larrys • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Keith: Ha, ha, my acacia KoAloha Opio long neck concert will suffice, along with my Ohana mahogany long neck concert, thank you. Even thats way out of my..."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Ha, ha, my acacia KoAloha Opio long neck concert will suffice, along with my Ohana mahogany long neck concert, thank you."

@larrys • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"Keith: One given away, one to go shortly, keeping the rest for now (computers/laptops). I bought myself a couple of new ones when I moved, & then a..."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"One given away, one to go shortly, keeping the rest for now (computers/laptops). I bought myself a couple of new ones when I moved, & then a couple of..."

@strumelia • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

""Some" old computers? Glad I only keep the most recent one no longer in use, as an emergency backup. I don't play the 15 or so nice whistles I have..."

@keith • one month ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "The Drifting Thread":

"I've been sorting out some old computers to give away, as I don't use them any more........ ....and I seem to have stopped looking for any more whistles,..."

@keith • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Posted a response to "How to clean your whistle":

"I actually had to use soap & water/dishwashing liquid to get my recently obtained aluminium whistle from an Ebay seller clean. The fipple can be cleaned..."

@keith • 2 months ago • comments: 0
Created a new forum topic "How to clean your whistle":

"Having purchased a whistle on Ebay, (that was in a sticky, smelly, filthy state when it arrived), I needed to find out the right way to clean it - so I..."