HAPPY WORLD UKULELE DAY!  Let the world know that 'my dog has fleas.'  We've got two great uke features for you this week along with a great video of Aerosmith frontman, Steven Tyler playing a cigar box guitar.  And we've got a new set of free plans: build your own upright bass using 1x3 planks.  So let's dig in...

We went back in the archives to 2009 for today's Featured Instrument(s).  Check out these great cigar box ukuleles by Smokebox Bob Hord of Costa Mesa, CA (USA).  See his full profile here.

STEVEN TYLER OF AEROSMITH PLAYS CIGAR BOX GUITAR - Here's a fun little vid posted by Mr. Dream On himself!  Steven Tyler is sitting on his bed, playing his cigar box guitar that was built by… >>see the amazing video.

WHAT IS THE MYSTERIOUS UKULELE ECHO DEVICE?!

In our relentless pursuit of strange and unusual tone for cigar box guitars and other instruments, we were floored when we tripped over this little piece of history:  The Echo Uke featuring the Ukulele Echo Device from the 1920's.

"Echo Uke" was a brand name of the Hawaiian Mahogany Company, a Honolulu ukulele manufacturer >>Read more...

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