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Original Post By:
Diane1020
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Date: 5/9/2008 5:03:13 PM
(Updated: 5/9/2008 5:06:39 PM)
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| I noticed that Moreukes(5) is now Moreukes(69) on ebay, which of course means he has sold 64 ukes lately. Now, novice that I am, with a UAS score of only 5 ukes, I find it hard to believe that these are all from his personal collection. Not that he's a fraud, because the feedback is good, but just wondering if people actually have that many in their personal collections. |
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Posted By:
Tiki King
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Date: 5/9/2008 5:38:23 PM |
| well, Rick "Ukulele Dick" McKee has about 175-200, and Ukulele Ray had a couple hundred. Andy Andrews probably has 200. I have about 50 altogether, and I heard tell of a gent in San Jose who has about 900. So, yeah, it is quite possible they are all his.
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Posted By:
looney tunes
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Date: 5/9/2008 6:04:07 PM
(Updated: 5/9/2008 6:04:21 PM)
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Would somebody tell my wife that 20 is not an addiction so she will stop calling me "You stupid old fool"?
Loon
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Posted By:
Papaya Boy
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Date: 5/9/2008 6:20:12 PM |
I'll tell her for you,but that might not change her opinion of you.
PB
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Posted By:
Diane1020
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Date: 5/9/2008 6:20:35 PM |
| I'm truly shocked at those numbers. So then it's ok to want every ukulele that I see? And other people also have this affliction?
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Posted By:
Tom B.
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Date: 5/9/2008 7:24:09 PM |
| It's OK to want every uke that you see, but it's probably a bad idea to buy every uke that you see. :)
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Posted By:
Carl-vB
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Date: 5/9/2008 8:02:50 PM |
Our friend Chuck, over on Collector's Uke Yak on this site, at one point had over 800 ukuleles, including several unique and famous specimens. In my opinion the symptoms attributed to Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome (UAS) do not meet the threshold of that diagnosis unless you have more than two of each different type of ukulele you might want to play (soprano, concert, tenor, baritone, C tuning, D tuning, low-fourth-string, re-entrant, banjo-ukulele, cigar-box, long-neck, five-string, six-string, eight-string, solid-body, antique, luthier-made ... how many combinations and permutations is that?)
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Posted By:
ed w
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Date: 5/10/2008 12:33:13 AM |
Loon says-
"Would somebody tell my wife that 20 is not an addiction so she will stop calling me "You stupid old fool"?"
Unless it has nothing to do with ukes.
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Posted By:
mLKauai
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Date: 5/10/2008 5:24:34 AM |
my theory on fortunate souls like Chuck and maybe most of the "tried and true", "real" uke collectors, including D Pasant, started a long time ago, when you could find gems in many a pawn shop, well before the so called latest (and the one before that), Uke Craze; or Golden Age or whatever; hit and ukes started getting as popular as they are now;
we poor "old fools" are just about 15 years late....
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Posted By:
Teletodd
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Date: 5/10/2008 10:55:40 AM |
| I wonder if all those ukes were the cause or effect of the divorce? Query the point that perhaps now, an amendement will be proposed throughout the land that the specific statutory grounds for divorce enumerated in the various rules, regulations, statutes and bylaws of the several states shall now include, nunc pro tunc, a provision that MORE than 20 ukes is res ipsa, irrefutable evidence that a divorce by default shall be granted forthwith, and all ofending ukes must imediately be placed for auction on ebay as tribute.
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Posted By:
old smelly bob
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Date: 5/10/2008 12:44:13 PM |
| Tele, you're not taking into consideration the extenuating circumstances, ie, 'that is sooo hot', or 'what a great maker', or '.......'
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Posted By:
Diane1020
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Date: 5/10/2008 3:44:32 PM |
| Teletodd, that is so funny, but now I wonder. Wouldn't it be a sad paradox if there had been only enough room in the house for say, 100 ukes or 1 wife so he told her, "Goodbye", but then had to sell the ukes to settle the divorce? Poor man!
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Posted By:
Teletodd
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Date: 5/10/2008 9:15:59 PM |
| Too many ukes is never enough
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