Well you all know what I'm going to say first (born with my first instrument which I still have and works great, etc.) so I'll skip that......

About 5 I guess and I got a plastic uke with one of the chord gizmos. Brown and white/beige color plastic and the gizmo had either 4 or 5 chord buttons. I had it for years and it played as well later as it did at first........really bad, wouldn't stay in tune, sounded like crap. My grandfather who played the banjo was always complaining that it wouldn't stay tuned as though he actually expected this cheap piece of plastic to stay in tune.....but it was fun.

Spaw