Yes!
I am freakishly proud of myself right now!
Why, you ask?
Because, my dear Watson, I just re-strung my ukulele all by myself. Without anyone else's assistance. On me own. No help.
Well, several videos on Youtube helped, but that doesn't count for some reason. It's not like they actually took the ukulele out of my hands and did one string right as an example. So there.
I had honestly expected that the evening would end in tears and that a second trip to Alan's (the most wonderful music shop on earth. Or at least in La Mesa, California) would be made tomorrow to beg the nice shop men for help. I bought the strings at Alan's - Aquila, baby - and stroked the very nice ukuleles they sell while my sister bought a piece of sheet music - ten pages long! - for "Rhapsody in Blue". It was lovely.
Unfortunately, I have no idea what to do with the ends of the strings. They are, at present, sticking out everywhere (and they poke me in the arm when I play) - but I coiled them up as neatly as possible and will figure out what to do someday. I hope. Things always seem to sort themselves out with time. Or they don't. Life goes on.
the youtube videos really should have covered the extra-string situation. for shame. :)
ReplyDeleteI thought so too. But I've clipped ends that were poking me and it's alright now.
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