I just love it to death. It's a pleasing surprise. I was just talking to a friend of mine here on Oahu who makes beautiful instruments, and they're not cheap. He's selling everything he can make, and one of his buyers is a company in New York. Stan Werbin, president of Michigan-based Elderly Instruments, who includes new and vintage ukes in his inventory, concurs.
Sales are more than they ever have been.
Twenty years ago, you couldn't give them away. And this year, for the first time, Werbin pointed out, an electric uke is available. The Konablaster electric ukulele. Another sign are two musicians who have taken the uke a quantum leap from Tiny Tim. It's not some museum thing to be collected and stuck on a wall.