# Recommend a good ukulele, please **URL:** \ **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")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**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")
> [@China\_Guy](#): > > 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): > > He SHOULD be best known for inventing scat singing. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-a-good-ukulele-please/825632)._