2013 Ukulele Festivals

Boy, there's a lot of ukulele festivals out there!  Barry Maz of www.gotaukulele.com has a fantastic resource on his site for finding one near you this year!  Click here to check out his calendar of 2013 Ukulele Festivals.  You can also submit one if it's not on the list.

Is your ukulele solid wood or laminate?

With most new ukuleles, the manufacturer will be pretty clear about whether the ukulele is made from solid wood or laminate...but sometimes they like to stretch the truth a bit.  And what about those vintage ukes that there is little info about on the web?  How do you tell if your ukulele is solid wood or laminate?

Barry Maz of www.gotaukulele.com suggests a couple of ways to check in this article.

Two of the solid wood "tests" involve looking at the grain on the inside of the sound hole and looking inside your ukulele with a flashlight to see if the inside grain matches up with the pattern of the outside grain.

Some generally good advice and it helped me determine that one of my vintage ukes is solid wood.