# Recommend a good ukulele, please

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632 "2018-12-05T20:14:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632/21 "2018-12-09T18:33:57Z")

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I see you’ve bought already but I can’t resist giving a bump and shout for Elderly Instruments in Lansing MI.  
[https://www.elderly.com/acoustics/ukuleles](https://www.elderly.com/acoustics/ukuleles)

I mail ordered a uke from them, I know nothing about stringed instruments, they were so helpful!

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**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2018, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632/22 "2018-12-09T19:00:02Z")

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> [@China\_Guy](#):
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> Paging Ukulele Ike to this thread.

I seem to recall that he’s just a fan of Cliff Edwards, and doesn’t claim any special knowledge about ukes.

> [@The ukulele in 1930s America](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ukulele-in-1930s-america/740881/3):
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> He SHOULD be best known for inventing scat singing.
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> Music historians really, really wanted for Louis Armstrong to the the inventor of scat singing, but there are recordings of Edwards doing it that predate Pops by a few years.
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> Wish I could be more helpful, **aldiboronti** , but I really don’t know much about the ukulele. I just like Cliff Edwards a lot. My main instrument is the saxophone, the OTHER instrument that got extremely popular in 1920s America.
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> My guess it that ukes were inexpensive, portable, easy to learn, and allowed the callow youths of the period to accompany their own singing as they romanced their flappers in a canoe.

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**Author:** ![Skabir](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skabir/32/3479_2.png) [@Skabir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skabir)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632/23 "2020-06-29T08:48:57Z")

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You can see the [ukulele for beginners.](https://ukulelesreview.com/best-ukulele-for-beginners/)

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