1. With all the bad news of the last two years and the very bad news now, I needed something lighthearted, funny, a little bit of Marylin's pep against all this dark seriousness of the world.
2. The best remedy against rumination I know is to move and/or do something where I have to concentrate.
3. The grip on a guitar was physically too complicated for my small hands - the ukulele has only four strings, as Rachel remarked. I am not trying to enter the stage, I want quick results. The triplets too (though all family here in Bavaria does not know what I bought. Being me I practise secretly before I "perform").
4. This wooden ukulele looks so sweet and beautiful - it is shiny and lacquered in emerald green with mother-of-pearl inlaid work. More radiant and glowing than on the photos.
5. I hope it trains brain and fingers, and know that it does not overawe my professional musical bunch of friends on the narrow boat trips. Or anyone else :-)
6. I love to follow instant inspirations - this was one.
7. And I love challenges. This might be one.
Good for you. I've read the instrument is easy to learn. I learned how to play a dulcimer; this can't be much more difficult.
ReplyDeleteI had to look "dulcimer" up, Joanne - and when I heard it on youtube I liked it. The sound resembled a bit the banjo? I like that it lies in front of you, so one can see what one does :-)
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