That’s it, I am officially the proud owner of my own ukelele! Here are the specs: Spanish cedar body (cigar box), mahogany neck with a 14-fret, rosewood fretboard. It’s a baritone ukelele so it’s a bit lower in pitch than your average uke, but it’s tuned similar to a guitar, so as a guitar player, I’m finding it easier to wrap my head around playing chords on it. It plays like a dream too. I spent countless hours today in a coffeeshop, in a hammock, and generally just wandering around playing this thing. I have yet to give it a name but I think it deserves one, so if anyone has any ideas, lay ‘em on me!

Also, as I mentioned earlier, I’ve contributed a page to the upcoming Kid’s Book Project. 60 different artists are all creating one page of the story and all profits will be donated to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. The book is 20 pages in right now. I ended up getting page 8 and I’ll let you know right now that it is awesome. Here’s the catch, we need to get more people to pre-order the book now to make sure we can give a good amount to Make-A-Wish. If you could find it in your heart to order one (or more), that’d be swell. There are a lot of people attached to this project who are much cooler than I am so don’t let this opportunity to help out pass you by. Please click on the banner below for more info.

This post is dedicated to my good friend Liz, the first woman to teach me the true meaning of the word… ukelele.

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