Links

• www.pacettiinstruments.com
• wwwgregsshoplog.blogspot.com

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( from listing's site ) - My life has been about music and wood. I started playing the guitar when I was twelve years old and fell in love with it. In my twenties, I began working in wood as a carpenter, house builder, and cabinetmaker. About 15 years ago I began to merge these passions and became a luthier. I build guitars, both acoustic and resophonic, ukuleles, and some special stringed instruments of my own design.

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• www.pegasusguitars.com
• Tiki King's Ukulele: Brand name database: Pegasus

Wood sets, kits, parts, binding jigs, etc...

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• members.aol.com/metalgitar2/phillips.html

Resonator Guitars, Mandolins, Ukuleles...

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Links

• www.pickardacoustics.com

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( from listing's site ) - Pickard Acoustics offers a wide range of handbuilt steel-strung guitars, mandolin family instruments, banjos and Nylgut®-strung ukuleles.

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Links

• www.konaweb.com/mahina/

Tiki King's Ukulele: Brand name database: Po_Mahina

(from their site) Island Jazz & Island Jazz Cutaway

Inspired by the Selmer Jazz Guitars made in Paris in the 1930's and made famous by Django Rheinhardt. Striking curly koa back and sides, spruce top, ebony fingerboard, ebony peg head overlay, bound top and back with grained ivoroid, Po Mahina inlay in peg head, abalone position markers at 3,5,7,10,12,15 and abalone inlay around small oval sound hole. Slightly longer scale than regular models.

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• www.pohakuukulele.com

Tiki King's Ukulele: Brand name database: Pohaku

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• www.andypowersinstruments.com

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(from Andy Powers's site) - Andy Powers grew up in a music-loving family in Oceanside, California. At the age of five Andy, the son of a carpenter and his artist wife, had his first workbench and shortly thereafter began playing piano. Andy took up playing the guitar when he was eight. In a house where musical instruments, tools and wood were all readily available, curiosity got the better of him and he began his first attempts at building guitars before the age of ten. With design and sound refinement the instruments began to improve tremendously, and Andy began selling the instruments to customers while he was still a teenager. Having been encouraged by his parents to pursue the arts, he began to explore the world of traditional inlayed art, using his instruments as a canvas.

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• www.melodyandharmonycreations.com

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A Guide to Ukulele Strums

One of the first skills a ukulele player learns is the art and craft of strumming, playing rhythm. This refers to an accompaniment technique suitable for the singer, singer - songwriter or someone who plays a support role for another instrument.

Strumming requires a specific set of skills. They are: 1) Memorization of chords 2) The ability to switch chords smoothly and 3) The ability to choose and execute a suitable rhythmic strum. It is this 3rd skill that is our focus in “A Guide to Ukulele Strums & Rhythmic Patterns”.

Though strumming looks natural to the casual observer, it is anything but natural to the beginning ukulele player. Even experienced players have difficulty in identifying and executing certain strums. Though this is one of those topics that is typically taken for granted, there is much to learn about rhythmic feels, accents, dynamics, strum direction, feel, percussive accents, idiomatic styles and tempo variation.

First and foremost, the subject of strumming is inseparably linked to rhythm. Though an ability to read rhythm is helpful, it’s not necessary to profit from this material.

More info and complete samples of entire book.