KIROKAZE
Jules of Nature
Keni

PR's Tumblrdome
Stranger Things
TVSTRANGERTHINGS

★

Love Begins
cherry valley forever
Game of Thrones Daily
AnasAbdin
trying on a metaphor
d e v o n
i don't do bad sauce passes

pixel skylines
🪼

shark vs the universe
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
ojovivo

izzy's playlists!

seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from Spain

seen from India

seen from France

seen from Türkiye

seen from United Kingdom

seen from France

seen from United States

seen from Saudi Arabia

seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from T1

seen from Germany

seen from United States
seen from India

seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Türkiye
@ukulelewahoo
Explore some more easy to play songs with 3 chords at:
http://yokulele.com/ukulele-songs-with-3-chords/
Judy Garland
http://yokulele.com/
Trying some new and expensive ukuleles.
How One Man Turns Old Cookie Tins and Cigar Boxes Into Handmade Instruments
To see more of Barry’s photos, check out @great.plains.handmade on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music.
How do you transition from punk rock to folk music? For Barry Rust (@great.plains.handmade), who builds custom instruments from found objects, it all began in an unremarkable town in central Illinois. “I was in high school and I started listening to punk music from the ‘70s where they were kids who just got a guitar, didn’t really know how to play, but banged out some songs,” he says. “I love that idea, that you don’t have to enter in some sort of course of study before you are allowed to enjoy playing music or being creative.”
Combine that with a childhood surrounded by tools on his family’s farm and, as Barry puts it, growing up “around this potential in everything,” and you’ll end up with Barry’s current gig: transforming old cookie tins, cigar boxes and other objects into handmade banjos, ukuleles and fiddles.
Working out of a studio in Brooklyn, Barry can spend up to 20 hours making a coffee tin into a ukulele — and while the result is certain to be beautiful, he never knows if he’ll totally pull it off. “That first strum is pretty magical,” he says. “It’s hard to know before that if it’s really going to work.”
In the handmade instruments business, Barry balances practical considerations — a box made out of cedar will resonate well, a metal tin will produce a quirky twang — with aesthetic ones. At thrift and antique stores, he finds inspiration from objects that tell their own stories. “The best boxes are the ones that have writing all over them,” he says. “It makes you think about who was it that owned this box, and what they were storing in there.” With a little help from the Internet, Barry was even able to revisit his own childhood. “There was a candy factory that I remember touring when I was in elementary school,” he says. “It was eventually bought by Nestlé and then closed down a few years ago. But I found somebody online who was selling really old tins of those candies from when I grew up. So that was an amazing personal find for me.”
Above all, it’s the connection to real life and real music that keeps Barry motivated. “Folk music — there’s not a lot of artifice around it … you pick up some instruments, and you sit around in a circle and you play.” See? A lot like punk.
—Instagram @music
Happy New Year :)
http://yokulele.com/
The must-see ukulele site for uke players the world over. Share songs, reviews,videos, lessons and top ukulele tips. Subscribe to weekly blog updates and link up with fellow ukulele addicts. Come play.
"A Ukulele Handbook" is ready to ship! A must have for every ukulele player and a great gift. Www.Quietamericanmusic.com/storestore to get a copy!
Here are some sample pages from our upcoming ukulele book ” A Ukulele Handbook.” All the music and lessons are written by me and hand illustrated and copied by Nicole. It’s due out in March, you can pre-order here: http://quietamericanmusic.com/storestore/pre-order-a-ukulele-handbook
Vahdah with a style 3 Ditson ukulele. Circa 1920
She’s the ghost of the Ditson blues She’s haunting me like a piece of bad news When midnight shadows creep, it means the end of sleep I hear that ghostly music moan To hear a thousand Ditson ukes sob and groan