Hello from West Virginia

Discussion in 'Introductions' started by lgarcia, Dec 5, 2020.

  1. lgarcia

    lgarcia New Member

    Hello everyone - nice to be a part of this forum. I collect vintage ukuleles, Cushman furniture, vintage jewelry, and pretty much anything else. Looking forward to reading through the site.
     
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  2. i need help

    i need help Moderator Moderator

    Welcome to the Forum, lgarcia! :)
     
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  3. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Thank you for joining us, Igarcia!

    Debora
     
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  4. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    greetings
     
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  5. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Welcome
     
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  6. patd8643

    patd8643 Well-Known Member

    From an X-West Virginian to another --- WELCOME!
     
    patd8643, Dec 5, 2020
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  7. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    Welcome!
     
    evelyb30, Dec 6, 2020
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  8. judy

    judy Well-Known Member

    Hi Igarcia!

    Welcome to Antiquers.............:cat:
     
    judy, Dec 6, 2020
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  9. Bakersgma

    Bakersgma Well-Known Member

    Greetings, Igarcia!!
     
    Bakersgma, Dec 6, 2020
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  10. stracci

    stracci Well-Known Member

    Welcome!
     
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  11. lgarcia

    lgarcia New Member

    Thank you for the nice welcome!
     
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  12. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    Hi Igarcia and WELCOME to ANTIQUERS!!!!
     
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  13. all_fakes

    all_fakes Well-Known Member

    Welcome! Vintage ukes are nice; my wife has a sweet little Johnny Marvin with a beautiful resonant voice, and an older but not vintage luthier-made tiple, often considered to be part of the uke family. I once owned, but sold, a vintage tiple whose maker I now have forgotten...it will probably come to me around midnight. (For those unfamiliar, a tiple has 10 strings; tuning similar to a standard uke, but with some strings doubled or tripled, and in octaves for the lowest string and the two middle courses, i.e. A4 A3 • D4 D3 D4 • F#4 F#3 F#4 • B3 B3. I tuned mine a step lower: G4 G3, C4 C3 C4, E4 E3 E4, A3 A3. Tiples can be hard or impossible to tune....some chords have the same pitch sounded on as many as 6 different strings; and once those are tuned, you hope that other chords will still be in tune...good luck with that. But when in tune, the sound is astonishingly rich for a tiny instrument; imagine a uke that sounds like a 12-string guitar).
     
    all_fakes, Dec 7, 2020
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  14. lgarcia

    lgarcia New Member

    Very nice - a vintage tiple is on the bucket list. For right now, four strings is about all I can handle. I have a Silvertone similar to the Johnny Marvin.
     
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