Tin can ukulele has a nice sound

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!)

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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.