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Tin can ukulele has a nice sound

Mark Frauenfelder at 11:35 am Wed, Jun 30, 2010

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Aaron Keim says: "Here is a tin can ukulele I made recently. It is walnut and mahogany with an italian espresso can." He plays in a band called Boulder Acoustic Society. (Thanks, Gary!)

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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  • darsal

    Dunno, “Wildwood Flower” and finger picks kinda makes it a mutant banjo more than a uke.

    It doesn’t seem right that banjos get so little love while the uke can do no wrong…

  • pinehead

    I thought he played it more like a mandolin, being that there are only four strings on a uke and four pairs of strings on a mandolin. Regardless, it has a good sound to it, I’ll say that. I wouldn’t have guessed an old coffee can would work that well.

  • Anonymous

    How about mandolins, they don’t get much love either…

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the long lost American cousin of the Okinawan kankara sanshin (sanshin made from a can). From what I can tell, cans were used because traditional materials were scarce immediately after the war. It is enjoying a bit of a resurgence in Japan these days.

    http://www.okinawa2.com/

  • JoshP

    Metal!!!
    Oh wait. Sersly, that’s really nice, kinda like a Uke dobro. I’d bet it’d play blues.