Confining yourself to only 2 to 3 hours at Elderly Instruments is a Sweet Torture! I ran around with a shopping list, tasting (almost) everything, and I'm still convinced that I could have found more stuff to use. Especially now that I'm ramping up the learning of TWO! new instruments at once: my purple uke (which I've had for several years now, but only last week found a method book that worked for me to train me up in the new chord shapes,) and my tenor banjo, recently converted from dixieland tuning to Irish tuning (details upon request).
The Spousal Unit and I went up to MI a day earlier than usual so that we could pick up niece Nikki, and take her down to Elderly Instruments and pick out a better guitar than her Walmart starter one. The choices were many, but the decision was decidedly made to postpone purchase until the end of the summer, when presumably the wages from the summer job will improve the "affordable" category. In the meantime, she fell in love with a sunny yellow ukulele, like mine and
peteralway 's.
If FB and Lj will play nicely together, this is niece Nikki,
and here is the new uke: