Published by Swiss James on 25 Feb 2009
Ukulele
Walking down Jingling Lu, near(ish) the Bund on Saturday I had a sudden urge to buy a Ukulele.
Don’t know where it came from, but it was overwhelming, like a thirst. I went into a couple of shops before finding a cheeky little yellow number.
The asking price was 240RMB. I didn’t argue, I was in love. Anyway my bargaining power was compromised after I danced around the shop going
“Look at the little strings! And it’s covered in fruit!!”
By the time I got home I’d picked up “Shake Rattle and Roll” (the taxi driver actually turned down his radio to listen) and now I reckon I can play a few songs reasonably well.
This isn’t necessarily one of them:
A note on the video: Youtube is rubbish in China- takes forever to load, so I’ve also put it on a local site called Tudou (”Potato”).
It was pretty easy to do; good old Google Translate eh?
On Tudou
On YouTube.
Yellow Ukulele all covered in fruit
240RMB including bag- from a guitar shop on Jing Ling Lu (proper address to follow)


