Daily Ukulele: Extreme DIY -- or at least crafting above and beyond my level

[newredshoes]

Many thanks to sporky_rat for sending this my way! Guys, you can build working ukuleles out of cardboard. It's pretty involved, but fascinating.

If you search YouTube for "cardboard ukulele," you can find a bunch of really nifty videos of people both building and playing their instruments. Here's one doing a pretty great cover of "House of the Rising Sun."

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[sporky_rat]

Isn't that cool? Now I want to go find the music for House of the Rising Sun and learn to play it!

I've been playing Eight Days a Week so far and it's not that hard! I keep getting so excited about playing it!

(My mother did finally beg me Saturday to find another Beatles song, please for the love of Ringo!)

[newredshoes]

Here are the tabs for the version I've been playing, if you're interested!

(Bwahahaha! I sort of count myself lucky that I live alone -- when I went home last weekend and played for my mom, she immediately pronounced me "terrible!")