So, I’m slidin’ down a street in Ukuleletown in my ’54 Mercury and I turn on the radio and this british bluesman blows out of the AM playing, of all things, a slide biscuit tin ukulele!
I tracked him down on the internet later….This is a killer video from Rob Collins, a self confessed low tech luthier in the English town of Hebden Bridge. It’s called “Can’t Be Satisfied”.
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and, for the cookie tin ukulele in action...
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He calls that instrument a guitar on that vid. he has other vids with a uke, tho.
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ah, yes, thanks! Check out the video of "my funny valentine" to see his cookie tin ukulele in action.
ReplyDeleteIt's a short-scale 6-stringer tuned to Bflat in the "Spanish" tuning.
ReplyDeleteThanks for listening! Rob.
It's good to see Rob getting praise - I own two Rob Collins instruments - great workmanship, very reasonable and a lot of fun.
ReplyDeleteIs there no end to this man's talents??!! What a star.
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