I find this whole ukelele thing incredibly intriguing. Not specifically about the political row you mention in the current post, but about being a uke-head in general.

I spent every Saturday morning for two years at Chicago’s Old Town School of Folk Music during the mid-1990′s, and still played guitar as badly as an arthritic lobster. Perhaps I should’ve practiced more. Perhaps I should’ve practiced.

Anyway…saddened yet still pessimistically optimistic that my future might include some minimal quantity of musical output, I trolled the Internet for information on the ukelele after watching George jam on his in the Beatles Anthology DVD box set. I figured that since it had two less strings, it should be 33.333% easier to play than the guitar.

I was excited to find some websites touting the ease with which the ukelele can be playing. Then got sidetracked by that coconut thing.

So, what’s the point of this rambling drivel of mine? It’s to ask your suggestion on “Ukelele for the musically hopeless.” If one wished to start down the path of ukelele righteousness, where should he step first?

Help me, Pam! If you fail me, then I’ll have no choice but to buy a kazoo.

Sal in Spain (Where I’ve lived for seven years and never once seen a ukelele)

Good luck tomorrow … will be thinking of America and hoping like hell a corner can be turned.