Will Fly,

Those two videos by Richard Durrant and Phil Beer are amazing. And daunting. Something to aspire to and be inspired by.

Joe, I forgot to say that the new strings I put on my ukes are also softer to play, so easier on the fingers. Also I took the soprano back to the music shop not long after I bought it to get a strap installed, and happened to ask if there was a way to make it easier on the fingers and they adjusted the action on it, i.e. changed the height of the strings in relation to the fret board.

Big Al Whittle, I can highly recommend the Mike Lynch online videos which I linked to above, while you are waiting for your DVD player to be fixed. No excuses! Just do it! :-)

James Hill - something else to aspire to The music starts at about 2 mins into the track, but also check out the foot percussion when he starts playing St Anne's Reel at about 3:30 into the track. He then discusses how to do it from about 4:00 mins.