Michele & Paul: mahalo

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

Mahalo Texicana Christmas...

As part of our "ukulele Christmas" theme, we sent painted Mahalo ukuleles to Austin Tx to David & Jacci's kids (nephews/nieces Russ, Dominic, Tricia, Andrew, Celine).

Tricia, Russ, Celine, Andrew, & Dominic...

Rush showing Dominic some chords...

Here is a video of them opening the presents...

Saturday, January 10, 2009

We've given a number of ukulele's as gifts this year...most of them inexpensive painted Mahalo's. The Mahalo ukuleles come with pretty lousy strings (something we realized too late before gift-giving came). Even after you've tuned them numerous times and they start to stay in tune, they still sound pretty bad. We tried putting on a number of strings (we ended up getting green and purple Mahalo ukuleles for ourselves...it's a uke thing). We found that we really like the way the Worth Brown Fluoro-carbon medium (BM) strings sound on the Mahalo ukuleles. The strings are somewhat pricey, but they give you enough length to do two ukuleles with one package.

So for what it is worth, we recommend the Worth Brown Fluoro-carbon medium (BM) soprano strings for the cheapie-er-moderately priced Mahalo ukuleles. You can purchase them at Elderly Instruments (a cool shop with a decent ukulele selection).

Yes, these are basically fishing lines.

Sunday, January 04, 2009

I'll have a uke Christmas without you...

We celebrated Christmas with Paul's family in the Twin Cities the day after Brian & Vanessa's New Years Day wedding. Sammy had a fun time with the family.

The theme for this year's Christmas turned out to be ukuleles. After Michele bought Paul a ukulele, we thought about it and figured it would be a fun gift for other family members. We found a maker of affordable ukuleles which has them painted in various colors (Mahalo). The strings which come with them are pretty bad, so you need to replace them with better strings.

Some of the painted ukuleles available...