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Thread #122999   Message #2706004
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
22-Aug-09 - 04:50 AM
Thread Name: 1008 ukuleles at the Albert Hall
Subject: RE: 1008 ukuleles at the Albert Hall
"WAV....
Very Simple....Even you might understand.
You can get a Ukelele for about £25.
To have a Cittern made by a decent Luthier could cost anything from £800 to £1500 or indded more. My Sobell cittern cost about £600 in 1973.
Don't think you'd get a very large number of players in the Albert for one tune would you?
And for the final time the Cittern is NOT AN ENGLISH INSTRUMENT...Geddit?
Wht am I bothering?" (Ralphie)...It IS one of the instruments "OF, OR CLOSELY ASSOCIATED, WITH ENLGAND" (from here, as well as that Mudcat thread); and I'd nationalise such production (same link for my views on capitalism).

Leeneia - the English flute and keyboards (yes, ideally it would be, rather, an English concertina) are, frankly, about as much as I can chew re. my repertoire of 50-60 English pieces (same link).