Playing Music in Hawaii

I found a great music store in Waimea at the back of the Parker Center with tons of new and used instruments. It's called Waimea Music Exchange. Their phone numbers are 808-885-8900 or 808-883-0391.

The owner, Paul, was very helpful in showing me various ukeleles before I decided on one of the less expensive ones. With the gig bag, extra strings, chord book and chromatic tuner, it came to about $200. That's twice as much as the one I found at Costco, but this one stays in tune and the intonation is good all the way up the neck!

So last night I put on a couple of our Hawaii CDs and played along. Fortunately, I have a frame of reference because I play a little guitar and a lot of bass guitar. Even so, the chord patterns are much different. You'd think because a guitar has 6 strings and a ukelele has 4 that the uke would be easier to play... Not so fast. I found the D pattern on a guitar is a G on the ukelele, and so it goes!

Mick