weissen uke

Paddy Burgin · Post by **Paddy Burgin** » 5 Nov 2013 4:37 pm

Ever feel like playing slide on a uke? One of our customers in Virginnia did and so we make him a weissen-uke. You can see and hear it in action on you tube here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e61jngpG9FU&fea ... tube_gdata

Cheers from downunder. Paddy Burgin www.burginguitars.co.nz

Bob Blair · Post by **Bob Blair** » 5 Nov 2013 5:44 pm

Very cool Paddy!

Tom Pettingill · Post by **Tom Pettingill** » 5 Nov 2013 5:56 pm

Indeed .. very cool!

Jouni Karvonen · Post by **Jouni Karvonen** » 5 Nov 2013 9:00 pm

We here in the cold north have a less refined project: lap uke and travel lap in scale of the baritone uke.

Bill Leff · Post by **Bill Leff** » 6 Nov 2013 7:42 am

I need a nut extender for my uke now!

Mike D · Post by **Mike D** » 6 Nov 2013 8:01 am

I have scraps I've been keeping with just this idea in mind. Always wondered how it would sound...and now I know!

Manfred Nabinger · Post by **Manfred Nabinger** » 7 Nov 2013 3:23 am

Hilo made a small (19" scale)Weissenborn-style Hawaiian guitar in the 20s. You can see and here it in this video (also slide playing on a soprano ukulele):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00-sIu0l ... glkP2ku-2A

I have electrified the soprano ukulele (Lace Dobro pickup) and it sounds like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S90Awar4 ... glkP2ku-2A