A tool for building chords
A few years ago, I created a tool (a wheel) for myself to make it easy to transpose chords from one key to another. I wanted one because I transposed…
Read moreCPLUG song book link
My apologies for the broken link to the songbook. Dropbox changed its policies and broke all the public links a few months back. I hadn’t recalled that was where I…
Read moreKanile’a Islander GL6
What a difference two strings make. Late last week, I traded my Jupiter Creek steel-stringed baritone, solid-body uke for one of these Kanile’a nylon-stringed GL6 “guitar-leles” which the company calls a…
Read moreCPLUG Songbook Updated
Even though our local uke group, CPLUG, is not currently meeting, the songbook has not died. I have updated it with new arrangements and made a few editorial changes to…
Read moreCPLUG offline, music still here
The Collingwood Public Library Ukulele Group is having a hiatus for now. After two years, interest waned, down from a high of 34 people to about six regulars. I felt…
Read moreServer Upgrade Coming
Sometime in the next two weeks, I will be amalgamating servers for the several sites I manage and conflating them onto one, new and (I hope) faster and more efficient…
Read morePolitics and Song
I grew up in the era of political songs: folk music, protest songs, the satire of Tom Leher and others from the late 1950s through the 1960s. It makes me…
Read moreFive songs for August
Next week the group gets back together after our short summer vacation. The group, by which I mean: CPLUG, our local ukulele club. For that happy occasion, I have arranged…
Read moreMusical Sources
Trying learn a song from an old songbook or sheet music can be difficult unless you already know how the song goes. Many of our group are introduced to the music…
Read moreTo Pick or Not…
There is some brouhaha that arises periodically in the ukulele community online about whether it is “proper” for players to use a pick. It sometimes generates wild discussions that degenerate…
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